Advanced power system nowadays demands to ensure accurate estimate of the system states (bus voltages and angles) in order to ensure protection, monitoring, controlling and smooth running of the system. The conventional state estimator estimates the power system states based on the measurements obtained from the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. Besides, the use of synchr...

This paper presents a procedure by which new PMU locations can be systematically determined in order to render an observable system. The procedure is then extended to account for cases of loss of a single phasor measurement unit (PMU). Buses with zero and non-zero injections, and branches with power flow measurements are also accounted for in this generalized procedure. Several cases involving ...

In order to obtain the transient power system measurement information, Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) should be able to collect Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) data in a timely manner. Therefore along with the continual deployment of PMUs in Great Britain (GB) transmission system substations, a high performance communications infrastructure is becoming essential with regard to the establishm...

Abstract – This paper proposes a PMU (Phasor Measurement Unit) based power oscillation detection system. The phasor angles at domestic 100V power outlets are collected to the server PC through internet, and the power oscillations and their various parameters are detected from the phasor angles. PMUs and servers are installed to Japanese 60Hz system, which is a large-scale longitudinal power sys...

In some recent articles, the spoofing of Phasor measurement unit (PMU) GPS receiver has been highlighted as a threat to power grid protection system. Having spoofed PMU GPS signals, one can manipulate the measurements and inject bad data to power grid protection system. The previous anti spoofing methods are all based on GPS signal analysis. The mentioned methods are just able to detect spoofin...

In this paper, optimal placement of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) using Global Positioning System (GPS) is discussed. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Simulated Annealing (SA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) are used for this problem. Pheromone evaporation coefficient and the probability of moving from state x to state y by ant are introduced into the ACO. The modifi...

Creation of satellite communication systems gave rise to a new generation of measurement equipment – Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU). Integrated into the measurement system WAMS, the PMU sensors provide a real picture of state of energy power system (EPS). The issues of PMU placement when solving the problem of EPS state estimation (SE) are discussed in many papers. PMU placement is a complex com...

Data quality of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is receiving increasing attention as it has been identified as one of the limiting factors that affect many wide-area measurement system (WAMS) based applications. In general, existing PMU calibration methods include offline testing and model based approaches. However, in practice, the effectiveness of both is limited due to the very strong assumpti...

Complex power systems need better observability and visualization capabilities to handle critical situations effectively. Synchro-phasor measurements provide intra second visibility to power system dynamics and enable faster control actions. A Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measures the voltage and current phasors (angle and magnitude) at a bus in a power system. In the literature, many methods ...

The concept of phasor measurement and its application in power system monitoring and control are introduced in this paper. The example of application of PMU in a Campus Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS) is then elaborated. With the availability of synchrophasor data measurement, it makes possible to establish the power system monitoring by directly employing spectral analysis of power or phase...