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Dynamic Rating of Power Lines and Transformers for Wind Energy Integration

Updated 2021-10-11 Published 2019-02-19

Dynamic Rating unlocks the capacity of power lines and transformers taking into account information on weather and apparatus condition. Dynamic Rating can make significant cost savings for new wind power farms, where this technique is very suitable, especially in the Nordic area.

The capacity of the majority of power devices is highly dependent on the heat
transfer properties of the materials which the devices are made of. To ensure
correct power limits of the equipment, one must take into consideration not
only the load, but also ambient conditions, such as: temperature, wind speed,
wind direction, solar irradiation, humidity, pressure, radiation into the atmosphere
and magnetic losses as well as the general condition of the apparatus.

The dynamic transformer rating application has shown a possibility to decrease
the size of the power transformer without shortcomings in component availability for wind power farms.
This result in a high economic benefit of a transformer with DTR compared to a standard rated transformer.

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Report number

2018:500

Author

Kateryna Morozovska