“TRAINING ON ELECTRICAL POWER
SYSTEM STUDIES USING PSS/E”
MODELLING OF WIND FARMS IN LOAD
FLOW BASIC COURSE (WEEK 1 DAY 2-A)
USAID’s SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR
PAKISTAN (SEP) PROJECT
Wind Form Layout
Data of Load Flow Case
• Farm Substation
➢ Number of Transformers, their Size and Reactance
➢ For a 50 MW Wind Farm we require: 2 x 40 MVA , 12.5 %
Reactance at own MVA Base
➢ Reactive Power Compensation
• Collector Cables
➢ Number of Collector Groups
➢ kV Level = 20 to 33 kV
➢ Aluminum or Copper, Single Core, directly buried
➢ Line parameters, R, X and B, PU at 100 MVA Base for Aluminum
Cable
Length, kM R+ X+ B+
1 0.025225 0.02458302 2.92954E-05
Data of Load Flow Case
• Wind Turbine Step-Up Transformer data
➢ WTG terminal voltage, LV: 0.6 to 0.69 kV
➢ Reactance of Transformer MV/LV: 6 % = 0.06 PU at own MVA Base
➢ MVA rating to be equal or a bit higher than WTG rated MVA
• Wind Turbine
➢ Rated MW at full speed
➢ Rated MVA and or PF
➢ Reactance = 0.8 PU at own base for GE DFIG WTGs