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Model Reduction of Wind Turbine Generator Models for Control Performance Evaluation

Wilches-Bernal, Felipe; Lackner, Christoph; Chow, Joe H.

Power system operations are fundamentally changed by the growing installation of wind generation systems. The undispatchable nature of wind turbine generators (WTGs) causes the operating conditions of power systems to be more volatile. At the same time, the converter-based interface of WTGs are capable, and are increasingly expected to, provide voltage and frequency regulation capabilities. Monitoring of power systems becomes critical under these anticipated conditions and high resolution data, such as synchrophasors, are crucial for this task. This paper presents an approximate low-order model of WTGs that can be readily estimated from available synchrophasor measurements. The identification of the parameters of the model can be used to approximate the control performance of WTGs and their contributions to frequency and voltage regulation.