Integrated wind turbines and power transmission line: A novel concept

New technologies for wind energy systems have received great attention globally in recent years. These technologies are trying to reduce the drawbacks of conventional wind systems. This paper introduces a novel concept for wind systems to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and reduce environmental damage. The proposed system is considered from two viewpoints in this paper. Firstly, the design of a novel structure of wind turbines and power transmission towers that combines power transmission lines and wind blades. Secondly, a new power delivery method for injecting the power generated by the wind turbines is proposed. In the proposed system, a common tower is used to hold both the conductors of the transmission line and vertical-axis wind turbines, which as a result, wind turbines are located in the Right Of Way (ROW) area of the transmission line. For injecting the power of wind turbines into the transmission line in a double-circuit transmission line, creating a specific phase difference between the two lines creates a suitable voltage difference between them for injecting wind turbine power to the transmission line without using large transformers. The power circuit of the proposed system and its performance have also been analyzed. Moreover, the created voltage equation between the two lines and each wind turbine's generated power according to the system parameters are obtained. Finally, the proposed system is simulated by MATLAB software and compared with the conventional wind farms.