Voltage collapse diagnostic and ATC system
First Claim
1. A voltage collapse diagnostic method for an electrical power system, comprising:
- A) defining a network of a plurality of interconnected busses and sources of reactive reserves;
B) defining groups of busses within said network such that when a reactive load is applied to any bus within a first group of said groups of busses, a same at least one source generally completely exhausts its reactive reserves;
C) establishing each group of busses defined in step B) as a respective voltage instability region, each of which is represented by a respective agent;
D) performing simulation of a plurality of single contingencies using equations that define the network;
E) selecting a count N of a number of agents to be considered;
F) determining a variable threshold value for a reactive remaining exhaustion Factor;
G) identifying each single contingency that results in the reactive remaining exhaustion factor for N number of agents being less than the threshold value, wherein the reactive remaining exhaustion factor is a value representing an amount of reactive power available in the respective agent in response to a contingency;
H) performing a multiple contingency analysis by combining single contingencies identified in step G); and
I) using results of the single contingencies and multiple contingency analysis to analyze a voltage response of at least a portion of the network.
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Abstract
A plurality of buses of an electrical power system are grouped into agents, family lines of agents and families of agents based on the reactive reserves depleted when the buses are loaded. Contingencies are applied and the reactive reserves are monitored to determine an exhaustion factor for one or more family lines in one or more families. A boundary case solution exists for each outage that has no solution when the outage is removed in small steps and an additional step has no solution and is used to assess where, why, and how the contingency causes voltage instability, voltage collapse and local blackout. Based on this information, the voltage rescheduling, active rescheduling, unit commitment and load shedding is determined that can be used as preventive, corrective or emergency controls in system design and planning, operation planning, reactive and voltage management, real time control, and Special Protection System Control.
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1. A voltage collapse diagnostic method for an electrical power system, comprising:
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A) defining a network of a plurality of interconnected busses and sources of reactive reserves; B) defining groups of busses within said network such that when a reactive load is applied to any bus within a first group of said groups of busses, a same at least one source generally completely exhausts its reactive reserves; C) establishing each group of busses defined in step B) as a respective voltage instability region, each of which is represented by a respective agent; D) performing simulation of a plurality of single contingencies using equations that define the network; E) selecting a count N of a number of agents to be considered; F) determining a variable threshold value for a reactive remaining exhaustion Factor; G) identifying each single contingency that results in the reactive remaining exhaustion factor for N number of agents being less than the threshold value, wherein the reactive remaining exhaustion factor is a value representing an amount of reactive power available in the respective agent in response to a contingency; H) performing a multiple contingency analysis by combining single contingencies identified in step G); and I) using results of the single contingencies and multiple contingency analysis to analyze a voltage response of at least a portion of the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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56. A voltage collapse diagnostic and preventive or corrective voltage rescheduling control system, comprising:
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A) defining a network of interconnected busses and sources of reactive reserves; B) defining groups of busses within said network such that when a load is placed on any bus within a first group of said groups of busses, a same at least one source generally completely exhausts its reactive reserves; C) establishing each group of busses defined in step B) as a respective agent, each agent having a respective set of reactive sources formed by the same at least one source exhausted in step B); D) performing a plurality of single and double contingencies using equations that define the network; E) simulating a contingency of the plurality of single and double contingencies by a process that (i) uses different loadflow simulation processes in an effort to obtain a loadflow solution; and
(ii) lacking the loadflow solution in step (i), incrementally removes equipment associated with the contingency and performs a loadflow analysis after each incremental removal until the loadflow analysis shows that no loadflow solution exists, which is a boundary case solution;F) ranking the agents according to an exhaustion factor for the contingency at the loadflow solution or at a solution based on the boundary case solution, wherein the exhaustion factor is a value representing an amount of reactive power required from the set of reactive sources of the respective agent in response to the contingency; G) grouping the agents into one or more predicted control regions wherein the exhaustion factor at the loadflow solution or the solution based on the boundary case solution for the contingency is less than a predetermined threshold; and H) predicting a response of the predicted control region to at least one of preventative voltage rescheduling control, preventative active power rescheduling control or preventative load shedding control for the contingency using the ranking of the agents within the predicted control region. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. The voltage collapse diagnostic and preventive and corrective control of active rescheduling comprising the steps of:
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A) ranking agents according to an exhaustion factor for a boundary case solution for that outage; B) defining a predicted control region which includes all agents that experience an exhaustion factor less than a predetermined threshold; C) selecting associated generators defined in step B) belonging to the predicted control region and placing said generators in the control set for active rescheduling control based on a generator or control device ranking of an exhaustion factor; D) adding the generators associated with any agent selected to be added to the control region to the generators or control devices in the control set simultaneously; wherein the generators with the largest exhaustion factor in the control set will generate less power by a participation factor proportional to the variable such as reactive and active loading factor or reactive losses incurred for a slight increase in active generation or voltage setpoint and the generators with the smallest variables will increase power using a participation factor that is inversely proportional to this variable such that the sum of the amount of power increased and decreased on generators in the control set is always zero or equal to the change in active losses incurred by the control change, wherein transfer of power is produced within the control set of generators that is progressively increased; wherein the active power setpoint on any generator is changed as part of the transfer level increase until reactive reserves on the generators in the control set no longer increase or until they reach the maximum or minimum active power capability limit on the generator and then they are held at that maximum or minimum active power capability limit; wherein the transfer of power within the set generators in the control set using the participation factors is progressively increased until reactive generation levels on generators in the control set or control region exceed a certain percentage of their reactive supply capability by increase in transfer or until a consecutive set of solutions is obtained, wherein no solution is found then another generator or control device is added to the control set based on the ranking of generators and control devices in the predicted control region are added to the control set, wherein process of increasing transfer within the control set of generators in an attempt to find consecutive loadflow solutions and increasing reactive reserves on generators or control devices in the control set or control region by increasing transfer levels on generators in the control set and if unsuccessful then adding an additional generator or control device to the control set is continued until there are no more generators or control devices in the predicted control region, wherein consecutive solutions are found, the control is selected to be nearer the centered of the consecutive set of solutions or where the reactive reserves on the generators and control devices exceed a certain percentage of their reactive supply capability, wherein no control is found after all agents in the predicted control region are placed in the control region, there is no preventive and corrective active rescheduling control for this contingency, wherein the Preventive Control could be implemented by modifying the active power generation setpoints if the first of a double contingency occurs with no solution, or if the system is known to be vulnerable to voltage collapse for this single contingency before it actually occurs on the system.
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71. A method of posturing control for a system including a base case blackout region, comprising:
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defining a control region of agents and a control set of reactive sources by; A) defining a network of interconnected busses and sources of reactive reserves; B) defining groups of busses within said network such that when a load is placed on any bus within a first group of said groups of busses, a same at least one source generally completely exhausts its reactive reserves; C) establishing each group of busses defined in step B) as a respective agent, each agent having a respective set of reactive sources formed by the same at least one source exhausted in step B); D) simulating a plurality of single and double contingencies using equations that define the network by a process that (i) uses different loadflow simulation processes in an effort to obtain a loadflow solution; and
(ii) lacking the loadflow solution in step (i), attempts to obtain a solution by incrementally removing equipment associated with the contingency until the loadflow analysis shows that no loadflow solution exists, which is a boundary case solution;E) determining a blackout region for each contingency of the plurality of single and double contingencies where agents have reactive resources that are completely exhausted by the contingency; and
wherein the control region of agents is formed by combining agents in the blackout region for each contingency with agents in the base case blackout region where the base case blackout region comprises those agents having no reactive reserves in a base case loadflow solution; and
wherein the control set of reactive sources are those sets of reactive sources of each agent in the control region of agents;performing at least one of the following steps for the control region of agents; adding generators to the control set in order to add reactive reserves to the control region; adding switchable shunt capacitors to the control set in the control region to a location where there is an existing generator; performing preventative voltage and reactive rescheduling by increasing a respective voltage set point of certain reactive sources of the control set and by decreasing a respective voltage set point of other reactive sources of the control set to add reactive reserves to the control region; performing preventative active rescheduling by increasing a respective active power generation level of certain reactive sources of the control set and by decreasing a respective active power generation level of other reactive sources of the control set to add reactive reserves to the control region;
orif the network experiences a contingency that makes blackout imminent, performing preventative or emergency load shedding to add reactive reserves to the control region.
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72. A method of posturing control for a set of equipment outages that have no solution, comprising:
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defining a network of interconnected busses and sources of reactive reserves; defining groups of busses within said network such that when a load is placed on any bus within a first group of said groups of busses, a same at least one source generally completely exhausts its reactive reserves, each of the groups of busses established as a respective agent; performing a plurality of single and double contingencies using equations that define the network; defining the set of equipment outages as those contingencies of the plurality of single and double contingencies for which no loadflow solution results when performing the contingency; finding at least one of a preventative voltage rescheduling control or preventative active rescheduling control for each contingency for which no loadflow solution results that obtains a robust solution by; for each contingency for which no loadflow solution results, performing at least one of i) increasing voltage set points of certain sources of at least one agent and decreasing or holding constant voltage set points of other sources of the at least one agent or ii) increasing active power generation of certain sources of at least one agent and decreasing active power generation of other sources of the at least one agent until a loadflow solution results for the contingency wherein the increasing and the decreasing occurs in an order based on the effect of the contingency on the at least one agent; and defining a control region for the contingency as the at least one agent whose sources are increased or decreased; finding those of the contingencies with identical control regions so as to form a single control region; and utilizing a coordinated voltage control for finding a posturing control for all contingencies for the single control region by utilizing different control sets of sources and different levels of voltage control to obtain solutions for all contingencies for the single control region. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A method for determining criticality of a plurality of contingencies, comprising:
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applying a voltage collapse diagnostic to an electrical power system, wherein a plurality of contingencies are applied to the electrical power system and responses from a plurality of agents are monitored; and ranking the plurality of contingencies according to criticality by;
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81. A method for determining criticality of a plurality of contingencies, comprising:
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applying a voltage collapse diagnostic to an electrical power system, wherein a plurality of contingencies are applied to the electrical power system and responses from a plurality of agents are monitored; and ranking the plurality of contingencies according to criticality by;
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82. A method for determining an available transfer capability, comprising:
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determining an amount of power that is available for transfer into or out of a load pocket where the set of importing and the set of exporting generators and their participation factors are design parameters;
wherein the determining step is a function of firm and non-firm transfer into the load pocket and a Transmission Reliability Margin (TRM) and a Capacity Benefit Margin (CBM) for the load pocket wherein;TTC =ITC +net power flow into the load pocket; NATC =TTC −
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NRES;RATC =TTC −
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whereinTTC is a Total Transfer Capability for the load pocket; ITC is an Incremental Transfer Capability for the load pocket; NRES is the non-recallable or firm transmission reservation for the load Pocket; RRES is the recallable or non firm reservation for the load pocket; NATC is the Non Recallable Available Transfer Capability; and RATC is the Recallable Available Transfer Capability.
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