Abstract-The global climate change leads to more extreme meteorological conditions such as icing weather, which have caused great losses to power systems. Comprehensive simulation tools are required to enhance the capability of power system risk assessment under extreme weather conditions. A hybrid numerical simulation scheme integrating icing weather events with power system dynamics is proposed to extend power system numerical simulation. A technique is developed to efficiently simulate the interaction of slow dynamics of weather events and fast dynamics of power systems. An extended package for PSS/E enabling hybrid simulation of icing event and power system disturbance is developed, based on which a hybrid simulation platform is established. Numerical studies show that the functionality of power system simulation is greatly extended by taking into account the icing weather events.

Global climate deterioration caused by excessive carbon emissions poses a severe threat to the stable operation of power systems. In extreme snow and ice weather, complex faults, such as ice-covered line breakage and insulator flashover, may be triggered. Hybrid simulations to reveal the influence mechanism and dynamic interaction process between extreme weather and power systems have become a research focus. Relationship models between meteorological conditions and grid failure were constructed in ice accretion and insulator flashover scenarios. Based on the above two models, a multi-variable and multi-time scale hybrid simulation of the meteorological process and power system, considering line icing and insulator flashover, was realized. An example was provided to verify the feasibility of the proposed simulation scheme.INDEX TERMS Extreme snow and ice weather, line icing, insulator flashover, hybrid simulation.

Abstract:With the increasing occurrence of extreme weather events, the short circuit and line-breaking faults in transmission lines caused by line galloping have been threatening the security operation of power systems. These faults are also hard to be simulated with current simulation tools. A numerical simulation approach of power systems is presented to simulate the clustered, cascading faults of long-timescale caused by line-galloping events. A simulation framework is constructed in which large numbers of fault scenarios are simulated to reflect the randomness of line galloping. The interaction mechanism between power system operation states and line galloping processes is revealed and simulated by the solution of differences of timescales and parameters. Based on Power System Simulator/Engineering (PSS/E), an extended software package for line galloping simulation is developed with Python, which extends the functionalities of the PSS/E in power system simulation. An example is given to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed simulation method.

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