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The invention relates to Method of operating a wind turbine, wherein rotor windings of an induction generator, which comprises stator coils coupled to a voltage grid, fed with rotor currents by a feed-in unit are driven by a rotor of the wind turbine; wherein the frequencies of the fed-in rotor curr

The invention relates to Method of operating a wind turbine, wherein rotor windings of an induction generator, which comprises stator coils coupled to a voltage grid, fed with rotor currents by a feed-in unit are driven by a rotor of the wind turbine; wherein the frequencies of the fed-in rotor currents are controlled depending on the rotor rotation frequency and the feed-in unit is electrically decoupled from the rotor windings in the case predetermined variations of the grid voltage amplitude and the rotor current feed-in is resumed after the decoupling caused by the variation of the grid voltage amplitude, when the currents generated in the rotor windings by the variation have declined to a predetermined value.

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We claim: 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a rotor with at least one rotor blade, the rotor being rotatably arranged with regard to a substantially horizontal rotor axis; an induction generator having rotor windings are coupled to the rotor and having stator coils for coupling to a voltage grid; a fe

We claim: 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a rotor with at least one rotor blade, the rotor being rotatably arranged with regard to a substantially horizontal rotor axis; an induction generator having rotor windings are coupled to the rotor and having stator coils for coupling to a voltage grid; a feed-in unit to feed currents into the rotor windings; a control unit to control frequency of the fed-in currents based on the rotor rotation frequency; and a unit operable to electrically decouple the feed-in unit from the rotor windings in case of variations of the grid voltage amplitude, wherein the emergency unit comprises a release arrangement to release the rotor current feed-in after decoupling, when the currents generated in the rotor windings that triggered the decoupling by variation of the grid voltage amplitude have declined to a predetermined value. 2. The wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the rotor is coupled to the rotor windings via a gear unit. 3. The wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the feed-in unit comprises a converter coupled to the grid voltage. 4. The wind turbine according to claim 3, wherein the converter is an intermediate DC voltage converter with a rotor-sided rotor current converter and a grid-sided grid converter. 5. The wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the emergency unit comprises a crowbar to short-circuit the rotor windings. 6. The wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is operable to control one or both of the amplitude position and the phase position of the currents fed into the rotor windings. 7. The wind turbine of claim 2, wherein the feed-in unit comprises a converter coupled to the grid voltage. 8. The wind turbine of claim 7, wherein the converter is an intermediate DC voltage converter with a rotor-sided rotor current converter and a grid-sided grid converter. 9. The wind turbine of claim 2, wherein the emergency unit comprises a crowbar to short-circuit the rotor windings. 10. The wind turbine of claim 3, wherein the emergency unit comprises a crowbar to short circuit the rotor windings. 11. The wind turbine of claim 4, wherein the emergency unit comprises a crowbar to short-circuit the rotor windings. 12. The wind turbine of claim 2, wherein the control unit is operable to control one or both of the amplitude position and the phase position of the currents fed into the rotor windings. 13. The wind turbine of claim 3, wherein the control unit is operable to control one or both of the amplitude position and the phase position of the currents fed into the rotor windings. 14. The wind turbine of claim 4, wherein the control unit is operable to control one or both of the amplitude position and the phase position of the currents fed into the rotor windings. 15. The wind turbine of claim 5, wherein the control unit is operable to control one or both of the amplitude position and the phase position of the currents fed into the rotor windings. 16. A wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is operable to control the active and reactive power of the induction generator independently by varying the phase position of the currents induced in the rotor windings.