Abstract
Wind energy, one of the renewable energy sources can be used as an alternate fuel. The main objective of this paper is to make
the system with a variable speed wind turbine using DFIG to supply the local loads. The proposed system using DFIG is
modelled and simulated in MATLAB. The slip power from the DFIG in its super synchronous mode of operation can be used for
battery charging through back to back connected converters. Here machine side converter acts as the rectifier and the battery side
converter as inverter. The simulations analysis for battery charging is done here using MATLAB Simulink model.
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Keywords: battery charging; DFIG; variable speed wind turbine