US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on Dec. 16 for "Operating a wind turbine in an off-grid stand-alone mode" (British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,947, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Operating a wind turbine in an off-grid stand-alone mode" was invented by Paul Brian Brogan (Glasgow, Great Britain), Douglas Elliott (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Thyge Knueppel (Vaerlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wind turbine during disconnection from a utility grid includes a generator, a wind turbine converter, in particular including a grid side converter portion connectable to the utility grid, a DC link, a generator side converter portion, and a UPS, the method including: allowing the UPS to draw...