Phasor Measurement Unit Deployment Approach for Maximum Observability Considering Vulnerability Analysis

In recent years, there has been growing interest of synchrophasor measurements like Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) Power systems are now being gradually populated by PMU since they provide significant phasor information for the protection and control of power systems during normal and abnormal situations. There are several applications of PMUs, out of which state estimation is a widely used. To improve the robustness of state estimation, different approaches for placement of PMUs have been studied. This thesis introduces an approach for deployment the PMUs considering its vulnerability. Two different analysis have been considered to solve the problem of locating PMUs in the systems. The first analysis shows that using a very limited number of PMUs, maximum bus observability can be obtained when considering the potential loss of PMUs. This analysis have been done considering with and without conventional measurements like zero injections and branch flow measurements. The second analysis is based on selection of critical buses with PMUs. The algorithm in latter is specifically used for the system which has existing PMUs and the scenario where new locations for new PMUs has to be planned. The need for implementing this study is highlighted based on attack threads on PMUs to minimize the system observability. Both the analysis are carried out using Binary Integer Programming (BIP). Detail procedure has been explained using flow charts and effectiveness of the proposed method is testified on several IEEE test systems. iii DEDICATION To my beloved parents and my family for whom my whole life pertains. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS