Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-2597-2025
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Non-linear interaction between a synchronous generator and grid-forming-controlled wind turbines – inertial effect enhancement and oscillation mitigation
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- Final revised paper (published on 14 Nov 2025)
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AR by Chinmayi Wagh on behalf of the Authors (29 Aug 2025)
Explain why there might be a rate of change of frequency limit? What if the value is too high?
Looks as if a wind turbine power curve has been used rather than a wind farm power curve. Something that should at least be noted in the paper
Section 2 of the paper could be shortened, since there is lots of familiar material here
What is the electrical distance between the synchronous machine, load and wind farm, and how might this affect the results, and the parameter selection process?
“hit and trial” should read as “trial and error”. Can the authors recommend a better approach than “trial and error” to select the parameters, particularly for application to a real system, and where the system configuration, demand levels, etc. may vary over time?
Fig. 3b – “region” and “zone” terms are both used interchangeably – best to stick with one term
Which tool is used to run the EMT simulations?
Fig. 7c and 8b show noticeable differences between the different approaches, but the text doesn’t clearly explain why
How should a zero vibration filter be designed?
How are H(GFM) and D(GFM) chosen? Could they become variables during transients?
One reason to provide an inertial (or fast frequency) response is to obtain a revenue stream by satisfying the particular system service definition. The authors may want to quantify the magnitude and duration of the power injection phase, and the duration and depth of the recovery phase after the frequency nadir when evaluating parameter choices. The authors should look at fast frequency reserve definitions in different countries.
How should the time delay, td, be best chosen, and would it need to vary with system loading conditions, wind turbine (farm) output, share of generation from renewable (converter-based) sources, etc.? It is not clear that the preferred parameter values given in the paper are robust for a much wider range of system conditions, and for other systems.
What would happen to the frequency response if the wind share was increased, larger load disturbance, weaker grid connection, fewer synchronous machines online, etc. ? What would be the implications for controller configuration and parameter selection?
Various time delays are considered, but how robust are the choices against changes in system conditions, demand levels, generator locations, grid strength, renewable share of demand, …?
Be careful when using the term “optimise”. Are the presented results “optimal”, or just “better”? It looks as if they are simply “better”
Figure 15 – are the authors stating that an input shaping filter is not applied when the turbine is operating in zone 2? What happens if the input wind speed is such that the turbine varies continuously between zone 1 and zone 2?
Appendix A – 50 Hz and 60 Hz are both mentioned – what is happening here?
English is rather clunky throughout the paper. It would be helpful to tidy up the English, and to expand upon the explanations of what the results mean, and why they are considered significant.
Define all acronyms
Kirchhoff is spelt like so
From a presentational perspective, the results figures should be placed much closer to the relevant text. For example, at the moment, the figures associated with Section 3 actually appear in Section 4. Consequently, the second half of the paper is not easy to follow, with constant switching between “text” pages and much later “figure” pages.
Harvard referencing uses 2 formats, e.g. Wagh et al. (2025) or (Wagh et al., 2025). The first format should be used if the reference forms an “active” part of the sentence, and the second format should be used if the reference doesn’t form an active part of the sentence. There are many places in the paper where the reference formatting is incorrect.