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Transient Overvoltages in Wind Farms, and a Case Study

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Administrator

In various Blogs on this site, we have talked about unique technical issues associated with integrating wind farms into existing grids.  This Blog now addresses the matter of transient overvoltages, or TOV, specifically with respect to potential risks to customers … Continue reading →

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Transmission bases for sizing wind and solar projects

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Administrator

Unlike base load power plants such as nuclear and some coal plants which operate near full capacity for days at a time, solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind farms are variable resources whose output is dependent on the minute-by-minute change in … Continue reading →

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November 2010 Trainings

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Administrator

  Rusty and the UG cablers Closing out the year with a bunch of trainings at the Pterra facility.  Early in November, Rusty Bascom conducted the first Underground Cable course.  The following week, Boris Gisin and Manos Obessis did TARA training.  This … Continue reading →

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A Closer Look at Wind Curtailment

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Administrator

 by Pterra Consulting  Wind farms are unique to power systems in that the construction and development time is much shorter than that of transmission lines and other bulk system facilities.  Wind farms can be placed into service well ahead of … Continue reading →

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2011 Course Schedule

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Administrator

Getting a head start on the coming year, the 2011 course lineup is as follows:   March 29-31, 2011 – Distributed Generation Analysis and Applications Course (New) April 12-14, 2011 – Understanding Location-Based Energy Pricing (New) April 25-29, 2011 – Power … Continue reading →

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A Methodology for Estimating Potential Curtailment of Wind Farms

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Administrator

 by Pterra Consulting Figure 1 A wind farm integrated into a transmission grid is subject to curtailment due to temporary or long-term insufficient capacity on the transmission lines.  Maintenance outage of a nearby line, dispatch of competing wind farms and availability of other generators are examples … Continue reading →

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Fall 2010 Course Schedule

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Administrator

The upcoming schedule of courses for Fall of 2010 includes a number of mainstay application courses, and a new course on underground cables, offered by Pterra jointly with Electrical Consulting Engineers, Inc.  The lineup: Aug 10-12, 2010 – Dynamic Simulations … Continue reading →

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Wind Integration Course – June 2010

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Administrator

Held in Albany, NY, June 15-17, 2010  What can we say?  We had all the windy people together and spent the next 3 days blowing air.  Seriously, we did get into some serious technical discussions about wind modeling specifics and the … Continue reading →

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High Voltage Concern at Wind Farms?

Posted on May 18, 2010 by admin

If we think about wind turbines as induction generators, one would assume that these would be VAR (reactive power) sinks, demanding vars from the grid to be able to deliver watts.  However, that may be true from the point of … Continue reading →

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HVDC Technology: When 2,000 MW is 2,000-Plus-1,200 MW

Posted on March 10, 2010 by admin

  by Pterra Consulting   In this Blog, we discuss the amazing story of how a lowly 2,000 MW HVDC line was able to support a transmission capacity increase of 3,200 MW.  Read on …

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