Load Flow of 210 MW Wind Farm Using ETAP

The study of power flow (Load flow) provides the solution of the quantities of an electrical grid in a normal balanced operation in a steady state. It ensures that electrical energy is transferred economically on the electrical grid with maximum reliability and efficiency at a practically fixed frequency and voltage for the consumers. By making a good mathematical model of the network, it is possible to observe the reactive and active power values and voltage amplitudes in the whole electrical grid. This model of the grid system must be determined to resolve the power flow problem, and solutions by numerical methods namely Newton–Raphson (NR), Accelerated Gauss-Siedel (AGS), and Fast Decoupled (FD) are presented. In this article, we will present a simulation with the ETAP software of the power flow of a wind power plant of 210 MW connected to the electric high-voltage grid of electrical energy transport. The simulation results by numerical methods were compared for computation time, the frequency of iterations, convergence, and tolerance value.