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access icon openaccess Real-time hybrid simulation platform for wide-area monitoring and control applications

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Received 14/08/2018, Accepted 31/08/2018, Published 21/09/2018

As wide-area measurements and control techniques are being developed and deployed for a more resilient power system; the modern power grid is strongly integrated with its communication network. By combining power systems with communication network simulator, co-simulation technique or platform enables the simulations of electric power systems in which communication network properties can be taken into account. In this study, a real-time hybrid simulation platform is proposed and implemented, which can be used to implement electromechanical transient real-time electric power simulation of a large-scale power system and emulate the measurement, control and communication process of wide-area power grids. Applications to study the phasor measurement unit measurement error and wide-area monitor and control are presented, which further illustrates the important role of this platform in power system simulation and analyses.

Inspec keywords: power grids; power system control; phasor measurement; power system transients; power system simulation

Other keywords: power system simulation; phasor measurement unit measurement error; communication network simulator; real-time hybrid simulation platform; large-scale power system; communication network properties; wide-area monitoring; control applications; wide-area power grids; electric power systems; electromechanical transient electric power simulation; co-simulation technique; wide-area measurements

Subjects: Control of electric power systems; Power system control; Power system measurement and metering

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