Improving Power Smoothing of Airborne Wind Energy Farms by Sizing an Energy Storage System

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2025

Authors

da Costa, R (Author) Other; Fernandes, RM (Author) Other; Roque, L (Author) Other; L.T. Paiva (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Pages: 694-705

16th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing, CONTROLO 2024

Porto, 17 July 2024 through 19 July 2024

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Authenticus ID: P-018-RC8

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81724-3_62

Abstract (EN): This work addresses the challenge of balancing the power output from an Airborne Wind Energy Farm to maintain a stable power flow into the electric grid. This is important to reduce the inherent imbalances in ground-based Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES), which experience significant fluctuations between power generation and consumption. This study highlights the critical role of the desynchronization of the units in the smoothing and stability of the power output. Furthermore, it presents the optimization of the sizing of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) required for seamless grid integration, using ultracapacitors. A metaheuristic approach, Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO), is used to determine the best ESS configurations. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11