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Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, 2011, 2, 300-304 doi:10.4236/sgre.2011.23034 Published Online August 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sgre) Sizing of Converters Interfacing the Rotor of Wind Driven DFIG to the Power Grid Mahmoud Abdel Halim Saleh, Mona Naguib Eskander Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. Email: salehmahmoud36@, eskander@eri.sci.eg Received April 19, 2011; revised May 19, 2011; accepted May 26, 2011. ABSTRACT In this paper , the operation of the Double Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) in the range from synchronous speed down to sub-synchronous speeds is analyzed using the power-flow approach. The objective of this analysis is to determine a ceiling for the rating of the converter interfacing the rotor of the wind driven double fed induction generator (DFIG) to the grid. Sizing the converter is an important issue in determining the economic viability of using the DFIM as a gen- erator at synchronous and sub-synchronous speeds in wind energy conversion systems. The size of the converter is proved to be less than 10% of the rated power of the DFIG, which is 40% to 67% lower than that estimated in previous publications. Keywords : Double Fed Induction Generator, Converter Sizing, Cost lowering, Wind Energy Conversion System 1. Introduction main drawbacks, namely; the intermittent unpredictable nature of the wind resource, and the relatively large in- The world community is very much concerned about vestment cost of the components of the wind energy “climate change” and specifically the global warming,