Offshore wind power plants (WPPs) using AC submarine cables connected to the power grid may experience harmonic resonance and harmonic amplification that are not common in onshore wind farms under the action of the distributed capacitance of submarine cables, which seriously threatens the safe and reliable operation of offshore WPPs. To investigate the influencing factors of harmonic amplification in offshore WPPs, a scalable state space-based modeling method for large-scale offshore WPPs were established. Moreover, the root locus method was used to study how the factors including that grid short-circuit capacities, cable parameters and the number of wind turbine generators (WTGs) affect the resonance modes. Finally, an offshore WPP in Jiangsu was built on the MATLAB/Simulink simulation platform, and the analysis results verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis.

Offshore wind farms are integrated into the power grid via AC submarine cables, which may cause severe harmonic problems and reduce the power quality of the grid. To address the problem of excessive harmonics in offshore wind power plants (WPPs), this paper proposes a method applying the static var generator (SVG) with frequency adaptive harmonic mitigation function to the offshore WPPs. Firstly, the SVG model and the mechanism of harmonic mitigation are investigated. Secondly, the proportional and resonant control strategy is proposed according to the internal model theorem and applied to the voltage control loop of SVG. The harmonic suppression performance of SVG is studied through the Bode diagram. Thirdly, to adapt to the uncertainty of harmonic frequencies, the recursive least-squares method is introduced to realize the real-time tracking of harmonic frequencies. And the harmonic compensation bandwidth of the SVG is broadened by adjusting the parameters of the controller. Finally, the offshore WPPs in Jiangsu are built based on the Matlab/Simulink platform to verify the effectiveness of the mitigation strategy. Compared with the LC filter, the improved method can effectively mitigate (inter-) harmonics and has strong robustness and adaptability.