Stability Improvement of Wind Farm by Utilising SMES and STATCOM Coupled System

The rising number of intermittent wind energy-based generation systems in power systems affects the grid system’s stability and reliability. These wind generators reduce the inertia of the system, thus making the system sensitive to grid disturbances. Due to their unique features, the Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIG) wind generators are being connected at a large scale. The Energy Storage Device (ESD) offers a viable solution to the integration issues caused by variable-natured renewable energy sources. In this work, the Static Compensator (STATCOM) is attached to the Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) technology to strengthen the wind farm integrated grid system for better performance. The SMES is interlinked with the grid system via a power electronic interface (PEI) and chopper for the energy exchange. This work examines the functioning of the proposed STATCOM as PEI and three-level chopper control circuit based on fuzzy logic for the SMES system. The fuzzy logic based SMES with STATCOM (STAT-SMES) is proposed for a DFIG-based integrated system under different fault conditions. This coupled controller can compensate for both real and reactive powers, improve voltage stability, and can damp power oscillations at a fast rate. The results have been compared without any controller, with STATCOM only, and with the proposed, fuzzy based SMES coupled to STATCOM using MATLAB. The simulation outcomes prove that coupling SMES to STATCOM is effective in handling wind farm integration issues in a better way than STATCOM.