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Old 6th-June-2008, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by LMagic007 View Post
Certainly instantaneous wind variance of wind speeds could pose a problem for power flow stability.
Given the inertia of the rotating components (you can't instantaneously change the speed of the turbine)* and the transient response of the power electronics, the system can deal quite well with short term fluctuations in wind.
*Nor can you change the speed of the wind instantaneously for same reason.

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