The fraction of electricity generated from renewable energy technologies utilizing non-controllable and on forecast accuracy depending sources (e.g. wind and solar radiation) is increasing. This will make today’s tools for stability assessment, which depend on extensive off-line computations, insufficient. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) can provide synchronized wide-area measurements in real time, which forms a basis for development of new methods for online monitoring of the system conditions.
The PhD project is part of the SOSPO project and its objective is to develop a method, which utilizes those synchronized measurements to dynamically evaluate the stability of the power system in case of facing a severe perturbation, e.g. a loss of a generation unit. The method analyses the ability of the power system to survive the transient system response as well as its capability to reach a new stable steady-state operating point.
The project outcome will improve the system state awareness of the operator and may provide supporting information to identify efficient control actions to improve the stability condition.
Project co-funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research I To be completed: 2014