WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS USING FUZZY CONTROLLED STATCOM FOR POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

This paper investigates the power quality issues due to installation of wind energy conversion system(WECS) with the distribution system.When the wind energy conversion system is connected to distribution system the power quality issues like variation of voltage,current and harmonics at source side and load side will be penerated into the distribution system. To mitigate the harmonics produced at source side and load side, a fuzzy controlled static compensator(F-STATCOM) is connected at point of common coupling. The F-Statcom controller and STATCOM for distribution system connected wind energy generating(WGS) to mitigate power quality issues is simulated by MATLAB/SIMULINK software.