Deployment and demonstration of wide area monitoring system in power system of Great Britain

Abstract

The creation of a suitable wide area monitoring system (WAMS) is widely recognized as an essential aspect of delivering a power system that will be secure, efficient and sustainable for the foreseeable future. In Great Britain (GB), the deployment of the first WAMS to monitor the entire power system in real time was the responsibility of the visualization of real time system dynamics using enhanced monitoring (VISOR) project. The core scope of the VISOR project is to deploy this WAMS and demonstrate how WAMS applications can in the near term provide system operators and planners with clear, actionable information. This paper presents the wider scope of the VISOR project and the GB wide WAMS that has been deployed. Furthermore, the paper describes some of the WAMS applications that have been deployed and provides examples of the measurement device performance issues that have been encountered during the project.

A Review of Wide-Area Monitoring and Damping Control Systems in Europe

“…National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) is responsible to ensure the stable and secure operation of Great Britain's (GB's) electricity transmission system which is interconnected with the power systems in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, France and Netherlands. About 40 PMUs have been installed on the GB's transmission system, but only 2 of the devices are currently required for operational analysis of the power system oscillations [33]. In addition, a PMU has been installed at Blyth in England to detect any oscillations between England and Scotland and a PMU has been installed at Staythorpe in England in order to determine whether the source of any oscillations is in the north or south of the network, by comparing the amplitude of any oscillations between the two PMUs.…”

Improved Subsynchronous Oscillation Parameter Identification with Synchrophasor Based on Matrix Pencil Method in Power Systems

“…SSO parameter identification based on synchrophasors provided by phasor measurement units (PMUs) and wide area measurement systems (WAMSs) can realize dynamic and synchronized monitoring of SSOs by using the synchronous measurement mechanism and high reporting rate of synchrophasors [13], [14]. Among the existing SSO parameter identification methods with synchrophasors, the discrete fourier transform (DFT) based algorithms are widely studied.…”

Construction and Evaluation of an Optical Medium Voltage Transducer Module Aimed at a 132 kV Optical Voltage Sensor for WAMPAC Systems

“…WAMPAC ensures the increased network visibility and fast reaction to the network demands and disturbances, a significant reduction in the number of blackouts, and improvements in the power networks reliability and security [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. This is achieved by combining the most recent developments in the fields of conventional measurement, communications, and computing [ 8 ].…”