Control Strategy for Orbital O2 Tidal System Based on EMR Model

Recently, electric power production using the tidal turbine system has increased in many countries. Changes in the speed of the marine current pose one of the main challenges in the planning and operation of the electrical network. This paper focuses on the analysis and simulation of Orbital O2 Tidal energy conversion (TEC) system based on Energetic Macroscopic Representation (EMR). The profile of 10 years marine current from the Pentland Firth – Orkney has been used in the EMR model system and the proposed control strategy. The simulation results show the ability of EMR model to adopt the proposed control strategy to maintain the voltage at grid side and to follow the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) at the rotor side of the O2 tidal system.