Track:
Future Electric Power Systems: Smart Grids, Engineering,
Economics
and Security
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: Reliability Assessment; Wide area measurements and
synchrosphasors, Sensor networks and data fusion; Large-scale
control; Situational awareness; Complex systems structure and
dynamics; New modeling and analysis approaches.
Session 1: Large-Scale System Control
Session Organizer and Chair: Ian Dobson, dobson@engr.wisc.edu
Power transmission systems are continental-scale networks with
substantial physical and/or economic interactions that make the
networks both complicated and complex. This session focuses on new
analyses and modeling of the structure, control and reliability of
these networks, including new control devices, complex system
dynamics, response to disturbances and agent-based models. As the
nation’s electric power system evolves, new approaches are needed
to model, analyze and control the transmission network so that it
can robustly and reliably supply power as it responds to both
traditional challenges and the new requirements of enabling
markets and new power sources and loads.
Session 2: Advanced Real-time Monitoring
Session Organizer and Chair: Joe Eto, JHEto@lbl.gov
Sensor networks are an emerging technology that relies on a
set of monitoring and communication devices distributed over the
region of interest (in our case, power system). Devices (such as
phasor measurement units, or distribution network monitors) are
tied to a backbone command network, which can be wireless or wired
(when speed is of importance). In order to maximize the network
performance (which can be tied to a multitude of objectives),
various forms of data fusion can be exploited at the cost of
somewhat higher communication and computational burden. The North
American Synchro-Phasor Initiative (NASPI) is a collaboration
among utilities, ISOs/RTOs, NERC transmission companies,
researchers and vendors to implement a wide-area synchro-phasor
network in all four North American interconnections. The mission
statement of the NASPI, “to create a robust widely available and
secure synchronized data measurement infrastructure over the
eastern interconnection with associated analysis monitoring tools
for better planning and operation, and improved reliability.” This
session will focus on aspects of the research being conducted in
support of NASPI such as the collection, analysis, and application
of these measurements, data protocols, communication, and
integration, topology processing, state estimation, security
margin assessment, alarming, and visualization.
Minitrack Chair:
Peter W. Sauer
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
1406 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-333-0394
Fax: 217-333-1162
Email: psauer@illinois.edu
