Power grid reliability and security

Technical Report · Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1173069· OSTI ID:1173069

Bose, Anjan ^[1]; Venkatasubramanian, Vaithianathan ^[1]; Hauser, Carl ^[1]; Bakken, David ^[1]; Anderson, David ^[1]; Zhao, Chuanlin ^[1]; Liu, Dong ^[1]; Yang, Tao ^[1]; Meng, Ming ^[1]; Zhang, Lin ^[1]; Ning, Jiawei ^[1]; Tashman, Zaid ^[1]

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1. Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)

This project has led to the development of a real-time simulation platform for electric power grids called Grid Simulator or GridSim for simulating the dynamic and information network interactions of large- scale power systems. The platform consists of physical models of power system components including synchronous generators, loads and control, which are simulated using a modified commercial power simulator namely Transient Stability Analysis Tool (TSAT) [1] together with data cleanup components, as well as an emulated substation level and wide-area power analysis components. The platform also includes realistic representations of communication network middleware that can emulate the real-time information flow back and forth between substations and control centers in wide-area power systems. The platform has been validated on a realistic 6000-bus model of the western American power system. The simulator GridSim developed in this project is the first of its kind in its ability to simulate real-time response of large-scale power grids, and serves as a cost effective real-time stability and control simulation platform for power industry.

• Research Organization: Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: OE0000032
• OSTI ID: 1173069
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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