Trending Technologies in Power Electronics for Wind Turbine System

In this research work we found an application on trending technologies of Power Electronics for the generation of high power using wind turbine system. During the last two decades Power Electronics plays a vital role in many industrial applications for the generation of power from 1-10 kilowatt power. Now-a-days there are new upcoming technologies in power electronics which gives high efficiency, better reliability and good processing speed with less time consumption. In recent days there is widespread use of wind turbines in the transmission and distribution system. As the grid connection and power level of the wind turbines are increasing, there is a requirement to make advances in the generators, power electronics systems and control solutions for the improvement of characteristics of the power plant and make it more suitable to be integrated into power grid. The switching requirement in this application contains less power consumption which is nothing but Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) as it was being replaced by Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR)for better controlling operations. As the characteristics of the plant are being improved then we need to face the challenges in the technologies. Here is a paper which gives an overview and discusses the developing trends of the technology in wind power systems.