Oscillations in a power system can be categorized into free oscillations and forced oscillations. Many algorithms have been developed to estimate the modes of free oscillations in a power system. Recently, forced oscillations caught many attentions. Techniques are proposed to detect forced oscillations and locate their sources. In addition, forced oscillations may have negative impact on the es...

The deployment of synchrophasor technology in India as a part of the pilot project has significantly improved the visibility of the system dynamics in real-time. The synchrophasor data has also been found to be of great help in off-line analysis of grid events. The grid disturbance in India in July 2012 has increased the need for exploring the possible applications of synchrophasor data in moni...

Power system stability control is a challenging task in power generation, transmission and distributions based applications and in many fields. Multi-machine power compensation control can achieve system stabilization within a prescribed time in conventional controller. However, limited time control cannot guarantee the system convergence within particular time independent on the initial condit...

This paper discusses and compares different control techniques for damping undesirable inter-area oscillation in power systems by means of Power System Stabilizers (PSS), Static Var Compensators (SVC) and Shunt Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM). The oscillation problem is analyzed from the point of view of Hopf bifurcations, an “extended” eigen analysis to study different controllers, t...

Doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind turbines with traditional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control provide no inertia response under system frequency events. Recently, the DFIG wind turbines have been equipped with virtual inertia controller (VIC) for supporting power system frequency stability. However, the conventional VICs with fixed gain have negative effects on inter-ar...

Using ambient excited data under PMU measurements to identify the low frequency oscillation mode and oscillation modes parameter information corresponding, has good prospects in power system analysis and control. This article discusses the applicability by using the natural excitation technique (NExT) in conjunction with the eigensystem realization algorithm for low frequency oscillation modes ...