Wind Turbine Modeling Overview

 

While strictly speaking, wind turbine models do not have a "machine model", "exciter", "governor", or "stabilizer" in the way that a traditional synchronous generator model does, the relationships between the wind machine model, electrical model, mechanical model, and a pseudo-governor model are very similiar. As a result, when looking at generators in the Simulator user interface, the various wind models will be listed under the traditional categories for synchronous machines of "machine model", "exciter", "governor", or "stabilizer". Examples are shown below. 

Wind Machine Models

 

GENWRI, GENWTG, WT1G, WT1G1, WT2G1, WT3G, WT3G1, WT3GW, WT4G1

Wind Electrical Models

listed as Exciters

EXWTG1, EXWTGE, WT2E1, WT3E, WT3E1, WT4E1

 

Wind Mechanical Models

listed as Governors

WNDTGE, WNDTRB, WT12T1, WT1T, WT3T, WT3T1

 

Wind Pitch Control or Aerodynamic Models

listed as Stabilizers

WT12A1, WT1P, WT3P, WT3P1

 

 

It will obviously not make any sense to configure a generator to use a wind machine model with a traditional synchronous machine exciter model and governor, so care should be taken not to setup such configurations. Presently Simulator does not check for such gross input errors.