{"id":79436,"date":"2018-06-11T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-new-system-optimises-electric-transmission-from-offshore-wind-farms"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:00:49","slug":"a-new-system-optimises-electric-transmission-from-offshore-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-new-system-optimises-electric-transmission-from-offshore-wind-farms","title":{"rendered":"A new system optimises electric transmission from offshore wind farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iPgcaLquZGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for wind turbines in offshore wind farms that allows power transmission to the coast in a more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation allows the use of a diode rectifier station in the offshore platform of a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link. In this way, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wind\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wind<\/a> turbine\u2019s alternating current (AC) can be easily converted into direct current (DC) for HVDC transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have developed a distributed control system to synchronise and regulate the electrical voltage and frequency of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wind+turbines\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wind turbines<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/offshore+wind+farm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">offshore wind farm<\/a>. This allows the transmission of energy to the general network through an HVDC link with a diode rectifier station. \u201cIt is less complicated, cheaper and more flexible than other current solutions,\u201d explains co-author Santiago Arnaltes G\u00f3mez, head of the UC3M Power Control Group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-optimises-electric-transmission-offshore-farms.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-optimises-electric-transmi...farms.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for wind turbines in offshore wind farms that allows power transmission to the coast in a more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions. This innovation allows the use of a diode rectifier station in the offshore platform of a high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79468,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79436\/revisions\/79468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}