Characteristic Analysis of High Temperature Superconducting Wind Turbine Generator

Wind power as an important renewable energy form has been developed substantially. Nowadays, more and more offshore wind plants using large-scale direct-drive wind turbine generators (DD-WTG) have been developed. Among the high-power wind turbines, the large-scale high temperature superconducting (HTS) DD-WTGs are the potential candidate for the practical application. In this paper, the characteristics including advantages and disadvantages of HTS DD-WTG with different topologies have been analyzed and presented.