Modelling and control of a wind turbine and farm

The Matlab/Simulink model of the Supergen (Sustainable Power Generation and Supply) Wind 5 MW exemplar wind turbine, which has been employed by a number of researchers at various institutions and Universities over the last decade, is reported. It is subsequently improved, especially in speed, to facilitate wind farm modelling, which usually involves duplicating wind turbine models. The improvement is achieved through various stages, including prewarping, discretisation using Heun's method in addition to Euler method, and conversion to C. Results are presented to demonstrate that improvement in speed is significant and that the resulting wind turbine model can be used for wind farm modelling more efficiently. It is important to highlight that improvement in speed is achieved without compromising the complexity of the turbine model; that is, each turbine included in a wind farm is neither simplified nor compromised. The use of the wind farm model for testing a wind farm controller that has recently been introduced is also demonstrated.