Computational Assessment of Control Strategy for PMSG Wind Turbines aiming at Voltage Regulation on Connection Point

The growing deployment of wind energy conversion systems experienced in recent years has been reflected in increasing requirements for connection of such complexes to electric networks. In this way, in a near future, wind farms could be required to behave as conventional power plants, which, besides the characteristics of energy supply, promote support to the electrical system in steady state and transient conditions. In this context, this work is focused in a computational assessment of a control strategy directed to wind energy conversion system with permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) aiming to regulate the voltage at the Point of Common Coupling. Therefore, after the mathematical description of the main physical components of such generating units, it proceeds to the computational implementation and performance evaluation of the control method using the ATP-EMTP simulator.