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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, VOL. 18, NO. 2, JUNE 2003 335 A Frequency Domain Approach to Wind Turbines for Flicker Analysis Carolina Vilar, Julio Usaola, and Hortensia Amarís Abstract—Wind turbines may have an important impact on frequency domain. Although this is an approximation, accu- power quality. Flicker is a more serious issue for fixed-speed wind rate enough results have been obtained, because the oscillations turbines because these turbines produce electric power following around the working point are small in flicker analysis. Finally, a the variations of the incident wind. During continuous operation, wind variations will result in power fluctuations and consequently comparison between the proposed frequency domain model and in voltage fluctuations. It is necessary to evaluate wind turbines a traditional time domain simulation is presented. flicker emission level, and traditionally time domain simulations have been used to perform the analysis. This paper presents a II. PROPOSED MODEL complete frequency domain model to study flicker produced during wind turbines continuous operation. The model includes a Flicker in wind turbines is due to oscillatory components of realistic wind speed model as observed by the wind turbine and mechanical torque. These oscillations are produced mainly by also a frequency domain induction generator model is presented. wind variations, which have a stochastic as well as a determin- The frequency domain model has been compared with a time domain model. The frequency domain approach, as shown in the istic origin. For a fre