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Modeling wind turbines
I am interested in the feasibility of a tilt up grid connect wind farm that creates ac and converts it using the windyboy inverter and a large bergey or sw wind power wind turbine can homer help me with direct grid connect systems? The converter seemed to do ac-dc dc- ac but not ac-ac....
HOMER can model both AC and DC wind turbines. If you are asking whether HOMER can model a DC wind turbine with a dedicated inverter, the answer is yes. You should model the turbine/inverter together as an AC wind turbine, with a power curve that shows AC power output versus wind speed, and costs that account for the turbine and the dedicated inverter.