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550 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, VOL. 26, NO. 2, JUNE 2011 A Coordinated Control Method to Smooth Wind Power Fluctuations of a PMSG-Based WECS Akie Uehara, Student Member, IEEE, Alok Pratap, Student Member, IEEE, Tomonori Goya, Student Member, IEEE, Tomonobu Senjyu, Senior Member, IEEE, Atsushi Yona, Member, IEEE, Naomitsu Urasaki, Member, IEEE, and Toshihisa Funabashi, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—This paper presents an output power smoothing converter system. In this system, the WECS does not need to method by a simple coordinated control of DC-link voltage and synchronize its rotational speed with the grid frequency. pitch angle of a wind energy conversion system WECS with a However, the wind turbine’s output power ?uctuates due to permanent magnet synchronous generator PMSG . The WECS adopts an AC-DC-AC converter system with voltage-source con- wind speed variations. This output power ?uctuations may cause verters VSC . The DC-link voltage command is determined grid-frequency deviations. Therefore, several literatures regard- according to output power ?uctuations of the PMSG. The out- ing the output power smoothing have been published, such as put power ?uctuationsin low- and high-frequency domains are the use of pitch angle control or the inertia of VSWTs. In [2], smoothed by the pitch angle control of the WECS, and the DC- a method for output power smoothing of a WECS by using the link voltage control, respectively. By using the proposed method, the wind turbine blade stress is mitigated as the pitch action in VSWT inertia is proposed. The output power ?uctuations of the high-frequency domain is reduced. In addition, the DC-link ca- WECS are smoothed during the wind-speed variation. However, pacitor size is reduced without the charge/discharge action in low- operating regions of the VSWT’s rotor speed is not addressed. frequency domain. A chopper circuit is used in the