Commercial Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) Monitoring and Utility Impacts Study

摘要

In the demonstration project detailed in the report, the performance of a 25 kW wind turbine operating at an industrial site in the Bronx was monitored and evaluated, with particular attention paid to the operation of the equipment necessary for safe and reliable utility interconnection. The turbine was tested for a number of different generator/power conditioning configurations and a number of problems were encountered, including a lightning strike and turbine overspeeds. The system was interconnected to Consolidated Edison's power grid to allow backfeed of excess power and the quality of this backfeed was then measured. A significant amount of practical data on instrumentation and metering equipment was also collected during the course of the project.