Download System Impact Study for CSU's Proposed Wind Farm: Challenges and Findings and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Electrical and Electronics Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! WAPA System Impact Study Plan For Next Semester by Jonathan Fidrych Joshua Restad Christine Schraeder Prepared to partially fulfill the requirements for EE402 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 Colorado State University announced, in March of 2007, plans to power the entire Fort Collins campus with 100 percent wind power. CSU retained the services of Wind Holding LLC to construct a wind farm to achieve this goal. Wind Holding LLC has two years to begin construction and up to eight years to complete the CSU Green Power Project, whic would include a minimum of 65 megawatts or about 25 wind turbines with the potential of up to 200 megawatts. At peak demand, currently uses about 16 megawatts of power. h CSU One of the goals of our project was to complete a System Impact Study for CSU’s proposed wind farm. This study included an analysis of the grid in the proposed area of the wind farm. The efforts concentrated on stressing TOT 5 and ensuring that it was not negatively impacted by the addition of new generation in the area. In order to accomplish the goal of analyzing the effects of the proposed wind farm, During the course of the semester we ran into compatibility issues between the data supplied to us and the methods utilized in implementing changes to the system. This issue was never fully resolved, instead we implemented a work around approach that had us construct the files we needed implemented and then had our industry advisor make the changes on a different machine. This allowed for us to complete the project in a timely manner. The semester started with us modifying the base case in PSS/E by adding our wind generation unit to the existing case as well as all the necessary busses, transformers capacitor banks and transmission lines. Once completed, we used it to run contingency simulations in PSS/E to establish how robust our installation was or to determine what needed to be added or redesigned to strengthen the addition of the proposed wind farm to the grid. We conducted our study focused mainly on the Power Flow analysis. This analysis was completed the week before E-Days, April 11, 2008. The final report was scheduled for completion on May 4, 2008 and the deadline was made. The map to the right shows the northern border between Colorado and Wyoming which includes Maxwell Ranch. This is the proposed area for CSU’s wind farm. The balloon at the top indicates our chosen location for the wind farm, and the other two balloons show two of the substations which were under consideration as connection points. The System Impact Study that our team conducted will be accessible to Western Area Power Adminstration, as well as to CSU. At the point that CSU (or Wind Holding Company) prepares to move forward with this project, this System Impact Study will be available to all participants. Anyone planning to add generation to the grid is responsible for simulating the strain on the grid due to the added generation. It is likely that Western will both verify our results and run a system stability test for further assurance.
