US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Method for controlling a power output of a grid forming wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,678, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Method for controlling a power output of a grid forming wind turbine" was invented by Bo Sun (Aarhus N, Denmark), Sonke Engelken (Silkeborg, Denmark), Torsten Lund (Fredericia, Denmark) and German Claudio Tarnowski (Tilst, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a power output of a grid forming wind turbine (1) in order to dampen power oscillations between a power grid (13) to which the wind turbine (1) is connected and the wind turbine (1) is disclosed. A damping power reference, PD, depending on a grid frequency of the power ...