>
> There's a large wind-turbine "farm" going up on the Gippsland
> coast here in
> Victoria. The wind doesn't blow all the time (duh!) and when it does the
> turbine blades (3-bladed model in this case) can rotate at any
> speed from dead
> slow to damn fast. The power grid they contribute to is 3-phase,
> 415V, 50Hz in
> Australia. So how to they synchronise the turbines' output to the required
> frequency and phase? Just curious.
>
> Thanks - Debbie
>

Hmmm. Good question. Maybe they rectify to DC (If they aren't generating DC)
and then have an inverter to output AC to the grid. Just a guess though -
don't really know. Hope somebody else knows for sure.

-- Mark



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