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:

  1. Analyze the effects of frequency deviations on load, generation, and power flow
  2. Identify Interconnection balancing concepts and requirements
  3. List system operator responsibilities for supporting Interconnection frequency
  4. Simulate impacts to power system frequency and ACE due to generator trip
  5. Identify appropriate actions in responding to low and high voltage conditions
  6. Recognize conditions that could lead to a voltage collapse
  7. Demonstrate through simulation impacts to power system voltage resulting from generator, transmission line, and transformer trips
  8. Demonstrate correct usage of voltage control equipment to maintain system voltage in acceptable range
  9. Describe Operational Planning Analysis and Real-time Assessments
  10. List ways to identify congestion or SOL exceedances
  11. Using the power system simulator, locate, adjust or direct system components to assist in the mitigation of contingencies that result in SOL exceedances
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