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To: dayglored
I'm no fan (pun intentional) of large wind farms, but to be fair, this doesn't sound like a WIND GENERATOR problem, this sounds like a POWER TRANSMISSION problem, and that's independent of the source of the power.

I totally disagree.
It's not a power transmission problem.

It's a SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM coupled with very high voltages and current.

59 posted on 09/14/2014 9:27:15 PM PDT by publius911 (`)
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To: publius911
> It's a SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM coupled with very high voltages and current.

Synchronization between which components? Generator frequency/phase and landline freq/phase? Between/among multiple generators?

On the assumption that the generators are producing multi-phase AC at a frequency determined by the wind (and at, as you say, very high volts and amps), getting the power transferred should be a difficult but already solved problem -- don't windfarm generators do that all the time?

What are the Germans doing that's so different? Or did they just screw up implementing a known solution?

Many years ago (c. 1980) I designed multi-phase inverters at the 400HP level and we had ways of synchronizing with the existing AC line to pump power to and from the mains. This German issue is 30+ years later. WTF did they do wrong?

60 posted on 09/14/2014 10:49:57 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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