General Electric Company
System and Method for Increasing Mechanical Inertia of Wind Turbine Rotor to Support Grid During Frequency Event

Abstract:

A method for operating a wind turbine connected to a power grid in response to one or more grid events occurring in the power grid includes monitoring, via one or more sensors, the power grid (such as a frequency thereof) so as to detect one or more grid events occurring in the power grid. In response to detecting one or more grid events occurring in the power grid, the method includes increasing mechanical inertia of a rotor of the wind turbine during a first time frame after one or more grid events occurs in the power grid. After the first time frame, the method includes providing a required additional power output to the power grid during a subsequent, second time frame so as to stabilize the power grid after one or more grid events occurs in the power grid.