Balancing, Voltage Control, and Congestion Management
Course overview
This engaging course provides a comprehensive understanding of essential power system operations, focusing on balancing, voltage control, and power flow management. Through dynamic PowerPoint presentations and hands-on simulations, participants will explore the core principles and techniques used by system operators to ensure reliable and efficient power grid performance.
Key Topics Covered:
- Balancing Concepts in the Power System:
Learn the fundamentals of frequency response, droop, ACE equation, and interchange. Understand how different types of generation, including renewable energy resources, contribute to grid balancing.
- Voltage Control Concepts in the Power System:
Explore the factors influencing voltage needs, the impacts of power system conditions, and the tools and equipment used to maintain voltage within acceptable limits.
- Power Flow and Congestion Management:
Discover how power flows through paths of least impedance, leading to potential congestion and limit exceedances. Learn strategies for manipulating power flow and managing congestion to maintain system reliability.
Hands-On Simulation:
Reinforce your learning with simulation exercises using a realistic generic power system simulator. Apply theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios and gain valuable experience in system operations.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will:
- Analyze the effects of frequency deviations on load, generation, and power flow
- Identify Interconnection balancing concepts and requirements
- List system operator responsibilities for supporting Interconnection frequency
- Simulate impacts to power system frequency and ACE due to generator trip
- Identify appropriate actions in responding to low and high voltage conditions
- Recognize conditions that could lead to a voltage collapse
- Demonstrate through simulation impacts to power system voltage resulting from generator, transmission line, and transformer trips
- Demonstrate correct usage of voltage control equipment to maintain system voltage in acceptable range
- Describe Operational Planning Analysis and Real-time Assessments
- List ways to identify congestion or SOL exceedances
- Using the power system simulator, locate, adjust or direct system components to assist in the mitigation of contingencies that result in SOL exceedances
This class is:
8 CEH 2 STD 4 SIM 0 EO
This course is ideal for system operators, engineers, and other power industry professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in maintaining grid reliability and efficiency.