Technological lines we develop:

• Electricity control and management
• Markets and regulations
• Accounting
• Electromagnetics
• Static converters
• Electricity transport and transmission


      

Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Group

Thrust Areas

Power electronics for renewable generation

• Power electronics for renewable energy systems.
• Different converter topologies.
• Control of power converter for different situations: normal and fault operation.

Electrical Machines

• Permanent magnet and wound rotor synchronous generators.
• Squirrel cage and doubly fed induction generators.
• Geared and direct drive.
• Dynamic simulation.
• Machine control.
• Machine design.

Modeling and Simulation of renewable energy systems

• Modeling and simulation of wind farms with different wind turbine technologies.
• Modeling and simulation of PV systems.
• Dynamic simulation using Matlab Simulink, DigSilent, PSS/E, PSCAD…
• DLL generation to be used by other simulation packages.

HVDC and FACTS for renewable energies

• HVDC transmission systems for wind and oceanic offshore power plants.
• HVDC-VSC and HVDC-LCC technologies.
• Control of HVDC power converters.
• Power flow control,
• Main grid support.
• FACTS for integration ok renewable generation in power systems.

Grid Integration

• Frequency and voltage support with renewable energy generation.
• Energy storage.
• Power system stability.
• Grid codes for renewable generation.
• Fault ride through of wind farms. 

 

Scaled experimental platforms

• Validation of proposed with real scaled platforms.
• Different generator technologies.
• Different power converter technologies.
• Primary energy source emulation.
• Power system emulation.
   

Electricity and Power Grids Group

Thrust Areas

Modeling and Control of Wind Turbines

• Development of control algorithms for a permanent magnet synchronous generator and a dual-fuel engine for wind energy generation applications for the study or wind energy integration into the electricity grid.
• Integration of developed algorithms for controlling active and reactive power in wind parks, for both the addition of new elements (FACTS, energy storage, etc.) and adaptation of facilities to new regulations.

CALENDAR

• Testing a new industrial development of high concentration PV systems.