Comparative Analysis of Advanced Controllers for Standalone WECs for DC Microgrid Applications

The small-scale wind energy generation system is one of the solutions to empower the isolated loads and provides a promising solution to decrease the greenhouse effect. This chapter describes the simulation analysis for wind energy conversion system incorporated with maximum power point tracking feature. The MPPT algorithms like variable current perturb and observe algorithm and variable step perturb and observe algorithm are incorporated with WECS. The comparative analysis is done in the closed-loop model in continuous time-varying wind speed. The closed-loop simulation is performed using a conventional fixed gain controller. To address the limitations of the fixed gain controller, the analysis is done using the gain scheduling proportional integral controller and the good gain method to tune the proportional integral controller. The comparative analysis between the fixed gain controller, the gain scheduling proportional integral controller, and the good gain method to tune proportional integral controller for above-stated MPPT methods is shown.