Dynamic equivalent model of doubly fed wind farm during electromagnetic transient process

The dynamic processes of a power system during grid fault are being changed by the large-scale applications of wind generation. The transient characteristics of a single doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) have been widely researched. However, the overall characteristics of a wind farm have not been obtained because the existing models of a wind farm cannot cover the differences caused by normal instruction values, controller responses, and protections of the DFIGs. The equivalent model of a doubly fed wind farm used for the electromagnetic transient analysis is studied. The feature information of the stator short-circuit current (SCC) of a DFIG was excavated based on transient behaviour analysis. The structure similarity indices are established to evaluate the envelope curves of the SCCs. A clustering method based on transient physical process is then proposed to distinguish coherent DFIGs. The equivalent model represented by a small number of DFIGs is obtained by aggregating coherent groups. The simulations indicate that the method effectively recognises transient state differences of the DFIGs. Thus, the model meets the requirements of the transient analysis.