Exploiting Bidirectional Power Flow Control to Capture Wind Gust Power in Small and Medium Wind Turbines

Among renewable energy sources, wind energy is one of the most promising ones. However, small and medium wind turbines need to cope with the natural intermittent nature of wind speed at lower altitudes. This imposes challenges on optimally tracking the Maximum Power Point (MPP) of the turbine. Up to now, various MPPT techniques have been proposed. However, most of these algorithms have poor perfor...