Assessment of Wind Turbine Generators on Reliability of Distribution Network

Abstract

Wind turbine generators (WTG) is predicted to play a prominent role in the electric power systems of the future. Connection of wind turbine generators to the distribution network increases power sources and therefore increases reliability of distribution network. Assessment of reliability of distribution network connected to wind turbine generators based on two state model yields big errors due to dependence of wind source capacity on wind speed which is a variable value. For more accurate assessment results, the article proposes to utilize multi-stage model of wind source reliability and switch section partitioning based on reliability on distribution network.