Track: Electric Power Systems:
---------- Engineering, Economics, and Policy
Minitrack: Electric Power System Monitoring and Control

This mini-track focuses on topics related to the ability of complex systems such as power systems to survive disturbances with minimal impact on performance.

Specific topics include:
* Steady-State and Dynamic Security Assessment
* Available Transfer Capability (ATC)
* State Estimation
* Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow
* Sensor Applications
* Large-Scale Real-Time Control
* Related technologies

Session 1: Sensor Networks, Data Integration and Advanced Real-time Measurements
The papers selected for this session discuss aspects of the research being conducted in support of NASPI. They begin with a discussion of the advanced real-time measurement systems that underlie the NASPI. They then discuss aspects of the collection, analysis, and application of these measurements, including data protocols, communication, and integration, topology processing, state estimation, security margin assessment, alarming, and visualization.

Session 2: EMS Applications
Restructuring in the electric power industry has led to the creation of large-scale Reliability Coordinators (RCs) with the purpose being better coordination of the security and reliability of the high voltage transmission grid. Furthermore, partially as a result of the August 14th, 2003 blackout, there has recently been an increased desire for better inter-RC coordination in order to provide better situational awareness of the state of the a large portion of the interconnected transmission system. The focus of this session is the energy management system (EMS) applications needed to provide this increased wide-area situational awareness. Desired papers would focus on traditional or new EMS applications with an emphasis on the changes needed to handle such large systems. Example topics include state estimation, contingency analysis, security constrained optimal power full, and wide-area visualization.

Minitrack Chair:
Peter W. Sauer
Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
1406 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: +1-217-333-0394
Fax: +1-217-333-1162
Email: sauer@ece.uiuc.edu

Session Organizer and Chair:
Sensor Networks, Data Integration and Advanced Real-time Measurements
Joe Eto
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Mailstop 90R4000, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Phone: +1-510-486-7284
Email: JHEto@lbl.gov

EMS Applications
Tom Overbye
University of Illinois AT Urbana-Champaigne
343 Everitt Lab, MC-702, 1406 W. Green, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Phone: +1-217-333-4463
Email: overbye@uiuc.edu