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The output power fluctuation of such renewable energy power plants as a wind-turbine generator and a photovoltaic system results in frequency deviation and terminal voltage fluctuation. Furthermore, these power fluctuations also affect the turbine shafting of diesel generator and gas-turbine generators, which are the main power generation systems in isolated islands. This article presents a control strategy that achieves torsional torque suppression and power system stabilization. Since the measurement of torsional torque is difficult technically, and there is uncertainty in mechanical constants of the shaft torsional system, the torsional torque is estimated by using a linear quadratic regulator observer with a parameter identification system. The simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed control system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are concerns in regards to wind power generation as its output constantly, as well as considerably, varies. This article presents a control strategy for wind farms consisting of a wind turbine with variable pitch. In order to reduce output power fluctuation of wind farms, smoothed wind-farm output power command is determined by wind condition and fuzzy neural network. In addition, individual wind turbine generators are controlled by output power command derived from wind-farm output power command and coordination control for each wind turbine generator. Simulation results using an actual detailed model for wind-farm systems show the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]