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1	Synchrophasor events in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) grid Rangel Werdene, Alexandro 17 June 2011 (has links) Synchronized phasor measurements, or synchrophasors, allow the measurement of voltage phase angle and frequency, and through the comparison of two or more phasor the stability of the grid can be studied. The acquisition of synchrophasors in possible using Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and Global Positioning System Technology (GPS). The purpose of this research is to study synchrophasor events in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) grid. Several studies have been made in the Texas grid, and that allows a comparison of events in both grids. During this study, five different types of synchrophasor events were observed. The first type of events, which consist of a change in phase angle difference value followed by damped oscillations has also been observed in the Texas grid; however, the other 4 types of events are not common occurrences in the Texas grid. The characteristics of each of the five types of synchrophasor events have been analyzed in this thesis. / text Synchrophasors WECC Synchronized phasor measurements Voltage Texas United States
2	Characterizing Generation Mix and Virtual Water for Resilience to Drought on the Western U.S. Power Grid January 2013 (has links) abstract: There is growing concern over the future availability of water for electricity generation. Because of a rapidly growing population coupled with an arid climate, the Western United States faces a particularly acute water/energy challenge, as installation of new electricity capacity is expected to be required in the areas with the most limited water availability. Electricity trading is anticipated to be an important strategy for avoiding further local water stress, especially during drought and in the areas with the most rapidly growing populations. Transfers of electricity imply transfers of "virtual water" - water required for the production of a product. Yet, as a result of sizable demand growth, there may not be excess capacity in the system to support trade as an adaptive response to long lasting drought. As the grid inevitably expands capacity due to higher demand, or adapts to anticipated climate change, capacity additions should be selected and sited to increase system resilience to drought. This paper explores the tradeoff between virtual water and local water/energy infrastructure development for the purpose of enhancing the Western US power grid's resilience to drought. A simple linear model is developed that estimates the economically optimal configuration of the Western US power grid given water constraints. The model indicates that natural gas combined cycle power plants combined with increased interstate trade in power and virtual water provide the greatest opportunity for cost effective and water efficient grid expansion. Such expansion, as well as drought conditions, may shift and increase virtual water trade patterns, as states with ample water resources and a competitive advantage in developing power sources become net exporters, and states with limited water or higher costs become importers. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering 2013 Environmental engineering Sustainability electricity grid resilience virtual water WECC
3	Determining One-Shot Control Criteria in Western North American Power Grid with Swarm Optimization Gregory Vaughan (6615489) 10 June 2019 (has links) The power transmission network is stretched thin in Western North America. When generators or substations fault, the resultant cascading failures can diminish transmission capabilities across wide regions of the continent. This thesis examined several methods of<br><div>determining one-shot controls based on frequency decline in electrical generators to reduce the effect of one or more phase faults and tripped generators. These methods included criteria based on indices calculated from frequency measured at the controller location. These indices included criteria based on local modes and the rate of change of frequency.</div><br>This thesis primarily used particle swarm optimization (PSO) with inertia to determine a well-adapted set of parameters. The parameters included up to three thresholds for indices calculated from frequency. The researchers found that the best method for distinguishing between one or more phase faults used thresholds on two Fourier indices. Future lines of research regarding one-shot controls were considered.<br><div><br></div><div>A method that distinguished nearby tripped generators from one or more phase faults and load change events was proposed. This method used a moving average, a negative<br></div>threshold for control, and a positive threshold to reject control. The negative threshold for the moving average is met frequently during any large transient event. An additional index must be used to distinguish loss of generation events. This index is the maximum value of the moving average up to the present time and it is good for distinguishing loss of<br>generation events from transient swings caused by other events.<br><br><div>This thesis further demonstrated how well a combination of controls based on both rate of change of frequency and local modes reduces instability of the network as determined by both a reduction in RMSGA and control efficiency at any time after the events.</div><br>This thesis found that using local modes is generally useful to diagnose and apply one-shot controls when instability is caused by one or more phase faults, while when disconnected generators or reduced loads cause instability in the system, the local modes did not distinguish between loss of generation capacity events and reduced load events. Instead, differentiating based on the rate of change of frequency and an initial upward deflection of frequency or an initial downward deflection of frequency did distinguish between these types of events. power engineering power systems one-shot control disconnected generators transient faults electrical utility planning electrical stability particle swarm machine learning wecc
4	Global Sensitivity Analysis of Inverter-Based Resources for Bulk Power System Dynamic Studies Guddanti, Balaji January 2022 (has links) No description available. Electrical Engineering Energy
5	A Wide-Area Perspective on Power System Operation and Dynamics Gardner, Robert Matthew 23 April 2008 (has links) Classically, wide-area synchronized power system monitoring has been an expensive task requiring significant investment in utility communications infrastructures for the service of relatively few costly sensors. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the viability of power system monitoring from very low voltage levels (120 V). Challenging the accepted norms in power system monitoring, the document will present the use of inexpensive GPS time synchronized sensors in mass numbers at the distribution level. In the past, such low level monitoring has been overlooked due to a perceived imbalance between the required investment and the usefulness of the resulting deluge of information. However, distribution level monitoring offers several advantages over bulk transmission system monitoring. First, practically everyone with access to electricity also has a measurement port into the electric power system. Second, internet access and GPS availability have become pedestrian commodities providing a communications and synchronization infrastructure for the transmission of low-voltage measurements. Third, these ubiquitous measurement points exist in an interconnected fashion irrespective of utility boundaries. This work offers insight into which parameters are meaningful to monitor at the distribution level and provides applications that add unprecedented value to the data extracted from this level. System models comprising the entire Eastern Interconnection are exploited in conjunction with a bounty of distribution level measurement data for the development of wide-area disturbance detection, classification, analysis, and location routines. The main contributions of this work are fivefold: the introduction of a novel power system disturbance detection algorithm; the development of a power system oscillation damping analysis methodology; the development of several parametric and non-parametric power system disturbance location methods, new methods of power system phenomena visualization, and the proposal and mapping of an online power system event reporting scheme. / Ph. D. TDOA FNET FDR GPS Wide-Area monitoring wide-area measurements power system event power system load shedding generation trip eastern interconnection wams ems nerc ercot wecc parzen window interconnection islanding PMU half-plane method least squares event trigger generation-load mismatch electromechanical wave wave propagation time delay of arrival oscillation trigger modal analysis electric grid transmission network transmission system hypocenter frequency matrix pencil mahalanobis distance

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