The objective of this paper is to find numerical bounds on the performances of algorithms for the placements of phasor measurement units (PMUs) in the power grid. Given noisy measurements and knowledge of the state correlation matrix, we use a linear minimum mean squared error estimator as the state estimator to formulate the PMU placement problem as an integer programming problem. Finding the ...

Received Jul 17, 2012 Revised Oct 26, 2012 Accepted Nov 2, 2012 Earlier, a simple dynamic equivalent for a power system external area containing a group of coherent generators was proposed in the literature. This equivalent is based on a new concept of decomposition of generators and a two-level generator aggregation. With the knowledge of only the passive network model of the external area and...

Power oscillations are a growing concern among power system operators worldwide. Traditionally, the main countermeasure against dangerous power oscillations has been the installation of power system stabilizers (PSS). Essentially, the potential for inter-area power oscillations depends on the strength of the tie lines between different areas and the load on the ties. From a European perspective...

Traditional power system dynamic models are very complex due to the intricacy of power system networks and can be inaccurate for control because of the amount of details needed and the fact that the grid topology changes all the time. With the fast deployment of a large number of phasor measurement units (PMUs) in the transmission network, a purely measurement-based model for dynamics estimatio...

The smart grid will be a power grid more “aware” of its operating state and having the ability to self-heal. These features may be incorporated into the grid by implementing a phasor measurement units based wide area measurement system. Such a system will help in better real time monitoring and control of the grid. However, the wide area measurement system is subject to challenges with respect ...

The aim of this paper is to assess the capability of the emerging synchronized phasor measurement technology in improving the overall stability of the Hydro-Quebec’s transmission system through supplementary modulation of voltage regulators. Following a thorough singular value and eigenvalue analysis of the system dynamic interactions, five control sites consisting of four generators and one sy...

This paper presents a technique for real-time predictionof stability/instability of a power system based on synchrophasor measurements obtained from phasor measurement units (PMUs) at generator buses.For stability assessment the technique makes use of system severity indices developed usingbus voltage magnitudeobtained from PMUs and generator electrical power. Generator power is computed using ...

in this paper, a new method based on branch placement for the optimal positioning of phasor measurement units (pmus) in power systems is proposed. in this method, the pmus are in type of single-channel and are installed at the beginning of the branches. therefore, they are able to measure the bus voltages. also, the installation of the pmus on the branches increases the security of observabilit...