Energy efficiency of wind power plants in various wind condition

The present paper determines the optimum energy operation area of an electric wind power system, under time varying wind speed conditions. The determinations of the optimal area, from the energy point of view, is done based on experimental values from the Romanian black sea cost, Dobrogea area. The optimum operation area is defined by the optimal mechanical velocity, ωOPTIM. For this, the dependence between the wind speed, v, and ωOPTIM are computed based on the current wind speed and the current mechanical velocity ω. Due to the high inertia of the wind turbine (WT), the generators speed is not able to follow the changes of the wind speed. Knowing the optimum value ωOPTIM, the solution is to determine the load at the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) in order that the mechanical speed should timely reach his optimum. (paper)