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ECE 573 - Power System Control

Last offered Fall 2017

Official Description

Energy control center functions, state estimation and steady state security assessment techniques, economic dispatch, optimal power flow, automatic generation control, and dynamic equivalents. Course Information: Prerequisite: ECE 476; credit or concurrent registration in ECE 530.

Subject Area

  • Power and Energy Systems

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Description

This course studies detailed aspects of power system operations and control, scheduling, and steady state security assessment and operations in the competitive environment. The emphasis is on the analytic and computational aspects of problems that arise in system operations and control. Papers of interest are reviewed and discussed.

Topics

  • Overview of power system operations and control: the basic objectives of security and economics in power system operations and control; security analysis framework - scope, objectives and implementation; role of the EMS (energy management system)
  • Optimal power flows: review of optimization; economic dispatch problems; formulation of optimal power flow problem; solution methods; objective functions and representation of constraints; security constrained OPF; applications to dispatch and rescheduling; pricing information and spot pricing; role of reactive power
  • Resource scheduling and commitment: nature of resource scheduling problem; time hierarchies; objectives and constraints; key functions and their interrelationships; unit commitment and hydro-thermal coordination; solution approaches using DP and Lagrangian relaxation; role in EMS
  • State estimation: fundamental notions; static state estimation - role and formulation; the least squares state estimation solution; constrained weighted least squares estimation; measurement requirements; observability; bad data identification/ detection, analysis and processing
  • Electricity restructuring: transition from monopoly to competition -paradigms, organizational structures and regulation; competitive electricity markets; market design; interrelationships between various markets; impacts of restructuring and competition; unbundling; nature of transmission services; congestion management; ancillary services; informational needs

Detailed Description and Outline

Topics:

  • Overview of power system operations and control: the basic objectives of security and economics in power system operations and control; security analysis framework - scope, objectives and implementation; role of the EMS (energy management system)
  • Optimal power flows: review of optimization; economic dispatch problems; formulation of optimal power flow problem; solution methods; objective functions and representation of constraints; security constrained OPF; applications to dispatch and rescheduling; pricing information and spot pricing; role of reactive power
  • Resource scheduling and commitment: nature of resource scheduling problem; time hierarchies; objectives and constraints; key functions and their interrelationships; unit commitment and hydro-thermal coordination; solution approaches using DP and Lagrangian relaxation; role in EMS
  • State estimation: fundamental notions; static state estimation - role and formulation; the least squares state estimation solution; constrained weighted least squares estimation; measurement requirements; observability; bad data identification/ detection, analysis and processing
  • Electricity restructuring: transition from monopoly to competition -paradigms, organizational structures and regulation; competitive electricity markets; market design; interrelationships between various markets; impacts of restructuring and competition; unbundling; nature of transmission services; congestion management; ancillary services; informational needs

Topical Prerequisites

ECE 476; credit or concurrent registration in ECE 530.

Texts

Class notes

These two texts are recommended but not required.
A. J. Wood and B. F. Wollenberg, Power generation, Operation and Control, 2nd ed., New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996.

A. Monticelli, State Estimation in Electric Power Systems: A Gene-ralized Approach, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Power System ControlL37143DIS40800 - 0920 T R  3013 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg George Gross