Dr Thomas Ackermann, Energynautics GmbH, Langen, Germany
Thomas Ackermann is CEO of wind and renewable energies consulting company, Energynautics, which specialises in network integration and power markets. He gained his PhDat KTH (Royal University of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, where he continues to do wind power freelance lecturing at the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also involved in education at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, via the EU TEMPUS program. Dr Ackermann's main interests are wind power, distributed power generation, and the impact of market regulations on the development of distributed generation in deregulated markets. Thomas Ackermann is an Editor of Wind Energy Journal (Wiley).

The second edition of the highly acclaimed Wind Power in Power Systems has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the latest challenges associated with increasing wind power penetration levels. Since its first release, practical experiences with high wind power penetration levels have significantly increased. This book presents an overview of the lessons learned in integrating wind power into power systems and provides an outlook of the relevant issues and solutions to allow even higher wind power penetration levels. This includes the development of standard wind turbine simulation models. This extensive update has 23 brand new chapters in cutting-edge areas including offshore wind farms and storage options, performance validation and certification for grid codes, and the provision of reactive power and voltage control from wind power plants.
Key features:
* Offers an international perspective on integrating a high penetration of wind power into the power system, from basic network interconnection to industry deregulation;
* Outlines the methodology and results of European and North American large-scale grid integration studies;
* Extensive practical experience from wind power and power system experts and transmission systems operators in Germany, Denmark, Spain, UK, Ireland, USA, China and New Zealand;
* Presents various wind turbine designs from the electrical perspective and models for their simulation, and discusses industry standards and world-wide grid codes, along with power quality issues;
* Considers concepts to increase penetration of wind power in power systems, from wind turbine, power plant and power system redesign to smart grid and storage solutions.
Carefully edited for a highly coherent structure, this work remains an essential reference for power system engineers, transmission and distribution network operator and planner, wind turbine designers, wind project developers and wind energy consultants dealing with the integration of wind power into the distribution or transmission network. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it is also useful for graduate students, researchers, regulation authorities, and policy makers who work in the area of wind power and need to understand the relevant power system integration issues.

Contributors xxxi
Abbreviations xlvii
Notation lvii
1 Introduction 1
Thomas Ackermann
2 Preface: Wind Power Myths Debunked 7
Michael Milligan, Kevin Porter, Edgar DeMeo, Paul Denholm, Hannele Holttinen, Brendan Kirby, Nicholas Miller, Andrew Mills, Mark O'Malley, Matthew Schuerger and Lennart Soder
Part A THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
3 Historical Development and Current Status of Wind Power 23
Thomas Ackermann
4 Wind Power in Power Systems: An Introduction 47
Lennart Söder and Thomas Ackermann
5 Generators and Power Electronics for Wind Turbines 73
Anca D. Hansen
6 Power System Impacts of Wind Power 105
Hannele Holttinen and Ritva Hirvonen
7 The Value of Wind Power 131
Lennart Söder
Part B TECHNICAL REGULATIONS AND GRID CODE VALIDATION
8 Power Quality Standards for Wind Turbines 159
John Olav Tande
9 Measurement of Electrical Characteristics 175
Fritz Santjer
10 Practical Experience with Power Quality and Wind Power 195
Ake Larsson
11 Technical Regulations for the Interconnection of Wind Power Plants to the Power System 209
Julija Matevosyan, Sigrid M. Bolik and Thomas Ackermann
12 Performance Validation and Certification for Grid Codes 241
Martin Schellschmidt, Stephan Adloff and Markus Fischer
Part C WIND POWER PLANT AND TRANSMISSION ISSUES
13 Electrical Design of a Wind Power Plant 259
Nicholas Miller, Reigh Walling and Richard Piwko
14 Transmission Systems for Offshore Wind Power Plants and Operation Planning Strategies for Offshore Power Systems 293
Thomas Ackermann, Antje Orths and Krzysztof Rudion
15 New Cable Systems for Offshore Wind Power Plants 329
Heinrich Brakelmann and Jan Bruügmann
16 New Control Concept for Offshore Wind Power Plants: Constant-Speed Turbines on a Grid with Variable Frequency 345
Eckehard Tröster
Part D INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
17 Overview of Integration Studies - Methodologies and Results 363
Hannele Holttinen
18 Two Reference Studies on European Transmission for Wind Integration: TradeWind and EWIS 387
Frans Van Hulle
19 Transmission Planning for Wind Energy in the USA: Status and Prospects 413
J. Charles Smith, Dale Osborn, Richard Piwko, Robert Zavadil, Brian Parsons, Lynn Coles, David Hawkins, Warren Lasher and Bradley Nickell
20 Wind Power in Areas with Limited Transmission Capacity 439
Julija Matevosyan
21 Wind Power and Storage 465
Aidan Tuohy and Mark O'Malley
22 Economic Aspects of Wind Power in Power Systems 489
Poul Erik Morthorst and Thomas Ackermann
Part E POWER SYSTEM INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE
23 Wind Power in the Danish Power System 519
Antje G. Orths and Peter Børre Eriksen
24 Wind Power in the German Network: Present Status and Future Challenges of Maintaining Quality of Supply 549
Matthias Luther and Wilhelm Winter
25 Wind Integration in Portugal
Ana Estanqueiro
26 Wind Power Integration Experience in Spain 595
Juan Ma. Rodríguez García, Olivia Alonso García and Miguel de la Torre Rodríguez
27 Maximizing Renewable Generation on the Power System of Ireland and Northern Ireland 623
Jonathan O'Sullivan
28 Wind Power in the Power System in Texas 649
Henry Durrwachter and Warren Lasher
29 Wind Power in the New Zealand Power System 667
Ray Brown
30 Large-Scale Wind Power Integration into the Chinese Power System 689
Yongning Chi, Zhen Wang, Yan Li and Weisheng Wang
31 Isolated Systems with Wind Power 707
E. Ian Baring-Gould and Per Lundsager
32 Wind Farms in Weak Power Networks in India 739
Poul Sørensen
33 Wind Power Prediction 753
Bernhard Ernst
Part F DYNAMIC MODELLING OF WIND TURBINES FOR POWER SYSTEM STUDIES
34 Introduction to the Modelling of Wind Turbines 769
Hans Knudsen and Jørgen Nygard Nielsen
35 A Generic Wind Power Plant Model 799
Abraham Ellis, Yuriy Kazachkov, Juan Sanchez-Gasca, Pouyan Pourbeik, Eduard Muljadi, Michael Behnke, Jens Fortmann and Slavomir Seman
36 Reduced-Order Modelling of Wind Turbines 821
Katherine Elkington, J.G. (Han) Slootweg, Mehrdad Ghandhari and Wil L. Kling
37 High-Order Models of Doubly Fed Induction Generators 849
Eva Centeno López and Jonas Persson
38 Full-Scale Verification of Dynamic Wind Turbine Models 865
Vladislav Akhmatov
39 Impacts of Wind Power on Power System Stability 891
Eknath Vittal, Andrew Keane, J.G. Slootweg and Wil Kling
40 Modelling of Large Wind Power Plants
Vladislav Akhmatov and Björn Andressen
Part G Future Issues
41 Benefits of Active Management of Distribution Systems
42 Wind Power and the Smart Grid
43 Reactive Power Capability and Voltage Control with Wind Turbines
44 Hydrogen as a Means of Transporting and Balancing Wind Power Production 999
Robert Steinberger-Wilckens
Index 1019