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Please see the latest SyncWind. press releases, news and articles:

• Type 5 Wind Turbine Technologies: Three main candidates compared (13. September 2024) and the accompanying presentation Grid-forming Wind Turbines: without the inverters! - Presentation (13. September 2024) by Geoff Henderson (SyncWind Power, New Zealand), Vahan Gevorgian, Weihang Yan (NREL, USA), Damian Flynn, William Mendieta (University College Dublin, Ireland), S M Shafiul Alam (Idaho National Laboratory, USA) presented at the 23rd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop Helsinki, Finland, 08 – 11 October 2024 (Submission-ID WISO24-158).
   

• RTE-International HVDC-VSC Newsletter, November 2022 - Technology outlook: Synchronous power-train of Type 5 wind turbine  (page 2) Geoff Henderson, Vahan Gevorgian, “Type 5 wind turbine technology: how sychronised, synchronous generation avoids uncertainties about inverter interoperability under IEEE 2800:2022”, 21st Wind & Solar Integration Workshop, 2022

• Type 5 Wind Turbine Technology: How Synchronised, Synchronous Generation Avoids Uncertainties about Inverter Interoperability under IEEE 2800:2022 (13. October 2022) and the accompanying presentation Type 5 Wind Turbine Technology - Presentation (13. October 2022) by Geoff Henderson (SyncWind Power Ltd, New Zealand / Italy) and Vahan Gevorgian (US National Renewable Energy Laboratory - NREL, Colorado, USA) presented at the 21th Wind Integration Workshop 12 - 14 October 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands (Submission-ID WIW22-134).

• Grid-Forming Wind - Getting ready for prime time, with or without inverters. (4. March 2022) by Vahan Gevorgian, Shahil Shah, Weihang Yan, and Geoff Henderson, published by IEEE Electrification Magazine (MARCH 2022).
   

• The Latest Development in Synchronous Wind Turbine Technology: How the LVS System Can Deliver Low Cost, Broad-Band Variable Turbine Speed and Type 5 Grid Connection (30. September 2021) and the accompanying presentation Synchronous Wind Power - Presentation (30. September 2021) by Geoff Henderson (SyncWind Power Ltd, New Zealand) presented at the 20th Wind Integration Workshop 29 - 30 September 2021 in Berlin (Submission-ID WIW21-119).

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Grid stability in the media

The issue of grid stability is widely covered in the media. Geoff Henderson's article Grid stability with renewables? Yes, Wind can! (updated 17.5.2021) had been published in an earlier version in some media:

• Grid stability with renewables? Yes, Wind can!
  Cision / PR Newswire, 22.6.2017
   

• Grid stability with renewables? Yes, Wind can!
  Energy Central , 22.6.2017
   

• Grid stability with renewables? Yes, Wind can!
  Markets Insider / Business Insider, 22.6.2017

In addition to Geoff Henderson's article Grid stability with renewables? Yes, Wind can! (updated 17.5.2021), we recommend the following readings:

• Grid inertia: why it matters in a renewable world
  Renewable Energy World, Archie Robb, 10.25.2019
   

• Media Release: Blueprint for a world-class electricity system, 09 June 2017
  Australian Government’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Alan Finkel, and his final report
  Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market - Blueprint for the Future including these Recommendations .

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Here are a few selected publications on the issue of grid stability, which do not include the solution offered by SyncWind. and do not represent the view of SyncWind.. With the solution offered by SyncWind., these articles could be regarded as partly outdated. However, they do display both, the problem and the need for a better solution.

• Understanding the impact of non-synchronous wind and solar generation on grid stability and identifying mitigation pathways
  Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect, 15.3.2020
   

• Research Suggests Wind Turbines Can Provide Grid Reliability and Flexibility
  US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE), 12.10.2018
   

• Australian wind farms to compete with gas to provide grid stability
  Renew Economy, Giles Parkinson, 20.2.2017
   

• Can Synthetic Inertia from Wind Power Stabilize Grids?
  IEEE SPECTRUM, 7.11.2016

Please contact us regarding any questions about these articles, news and the issue of grid stability in general.

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