US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for damping power oscillations during frequency fluctuations" (Danish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,992, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Methods and systems for damping power oscillations during frequency fluctuations" was invented by Beatriz Callejo Rodriguez (Madrid), Naveen Kumar Boggarpu (Tilst, Denmark) and Kouroush Nayebi (Ikast, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling a renewable energy power plant, such as a wind power plant, when a frequency level of a power network, to which the power plant is connected, is outside of a frequency deadband. Aspects of the invention may be used to control the active power output of a wind energy power plant and to dampen oscillatio...