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Measurements of harmonic and interharmonic emission from wind power systems

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With increasing amounts of wind power connected, the power system is impacted in a number of ways. In this paper, the emphasis is on one of those impacts: the harmonic and interharmonic emission from wind-power installations. The emission of individual wind turbines as well as from a wind park has been studied. The spectrum as a function of active-power has been studied. Various trends of emission according to the output power have been presented. For four modern wind turbines estimations have been done on the impact on the grid for each harmonic and interharmonic subgroup. The primary emission from a complete windpark due to the emission from the turbines has been analyzed.

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  1. Electric Power Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 931 87, Skellefteå, Sweden

    K. Yang, M. Bollen & M. Wahlberg

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000, Skopje, Macedonia

    S. Cundeva

  3. STRI AB, 771 80, Ludvika, Sweden

    M. Bollen

  4. Skellefteå Kraft Elnät AB, 931 80, Skellefteå, Sweden

    M. Wahlberg

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Yang, K., Cundeva, S., Bollen, M. et al. Measurements of harmonic and interharmonic emission from wind power systems. Russ. Electr. Engin. 85, 769–776 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068371214120177

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