| During the last two decades, renewable wind energy has become increasingly a popular green-energy alternative to fossil-fuel-generated electricity. However, the integration of a dispersed renewable wind energy scheme into AC grid networks poses a great challenge for power quality, security, reliability, and stability. The thesis is a focused study to validate a number of novel FACTS-based power filter and capacitor compensators with novel multi-loop error-driven controllers for weak electric distribution grid networks. The unified sample system model for the validation study is fully developed by integrating sub-system mathematical models in MATLAB/Simulink. The parameters of the FACTS- based compensators are optimized by a guided trial-and-error method to ensure effective bus voltage stabilization, reactive power compensation, and power quality improvement in weak electric distribution grid networks with dispersed wind green-energy grid- integration. |
