Enhanced Wide Area Monitoring and Control System
Bipul Luitel and Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA
Sponsored by the US NSF EFRI#08036017
Power system is a geographically distributed highly networked system. Hence, wide area monitoring and control is required to keep the system in stability. With addition of renewable resources, distributed generation and bidirectional power flows in a smart grid, monitoring and control has become more challenging and critical. The number of variables to be monitored is increasing and their timing requirements are becoming more critical in the context of smart grid. Hence reliability, integrity and security are important aspects of the enhanced wide area monitoring and control system (EWAMCS – EWAMS and EWACS). To be able to monitor and control such a large network; intelligent, fault tolerant and secure solutions are required which also need to be highly scalable.
This project utilizes computational intelligence techniques for addressing the issues of reliability, integrity, security and scalability of the EWAMS and EWACS.
References
[1] B. Luitel B, G. K. Venayagamoorthy, C. Johnson, “Enhanced Wide Area Monitoring System”. IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Washington DC, USA, January 19-21, 2010
[2] S. Ray, G. K. Venayagamoorthy, “Real-Time Implementation of a Measurement based Adaptive Wide Area Control System Considering Communication Delays”, IET Proceedings on Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 62 – 70
