Design of Wind Farm Infrastructure for Reduction of Power Loss in Radial Distribution System

Wind energy as DG from the wind farm is applied to the distribution system for loss minimization. In the wind farm, the downstream wind turbines experience a reduction in wind speed due to the upstream turbines ahead of them. Wind wake has a significant impact on wind turbine efficiency. Single and multi-wake effects are considered during the effective wind power calculation. A new irregular infrastructure of the wind farm is designed to have maximum wind power extraction with minimum wind wake loss and wind farm area. The hourly data distribution pattern of wind speed is non-parametric. This issue proceeds to the implementation of Kernel Density Estimation technique to the thesis work. Load Impedance Matrix method is implemented to the distribution system for load flow analysis. Daily load variation and air density are applied to the distribution system for an approach towards a practical system. IEEE-28 and IEEE-69 bus systems are studied for the active power loss reduction.