The study of voltage problems in Polish power system

Author

Adapa, R. ; Madajewski, K. ; Sobierajski, M.

Author_Institution

EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

23-27 Jan 2000

Firstpage

1727

Abstract

Voltage control and voltage stability problems are not new in planning and operating of electric power networks but are now receiving special attention in many countries because of a greater need for improving efficiency of usage of transmission capacity in the competitive electric energy market. Many European utilities have carried out the studies over the use of FACTS devices on their transmission system. Similar investigations were done in Poland. This paper presents the results of voltage problem analysis obtained in the EPRI project of application of FACTS technology to the Polish Power Grid. The IPFLOW and VSTAB programs have been used for contingency analysis and voltage stability study. The northeastern part of Polish power system was investigated in detail due to unacceptable voltage profiles and voltage stability problems under peak load scenario in the year 2000. Technical advantage of the SVC or STATCOM system over conventional solutions in resolving voltage stability problems was investigated

Keywords

control system analysis computing; flexible AC transmission systems; power system analysis computing; power system dynamic stability; power transmission control; reactive power control; static VAr compensators; voltage control; Europe; FACTS devices; IPFLOW; Polish power system; STATCOM; SVC; VSTAB; competitive electric energy market; computer simulation; electric utilities; transmission capacity; voltage control; voltage problems study; voltage stability; Automatic voltage control; Capacity planning; Power grids; Power system analysis computing; Power system planning; Power system stability; Power systems; Stability analysis; Static VAr compensators; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2000. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5935-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESW.2000.847613

Filename

847613