Wireless communication requirements selection according to PMUs data transmission standard for smart grid

Large power systems are facing new challenges, such as increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, in particular wind generation, growing demands, limited resources, and competitive electricity markets. Under these conditions, the large power systems have to be covered from the reliability of the protection coordination. Wireless communication tool to collect data from different units to cape with the world is proposed to solve the interconnected power system as wide area system from the protection to coordination and then control action. The paper introduces the communication performance for the wireless scheme used for collecting data from phase measuring units (PMUs). The performance of Long Term Evolution (LTE) from the point of view the communication standard and PMUs data transmission is discussed. PMUs data transmission parameters are studying. These parameters are compared with the performance of LTE communication network. The main wireless communication requirements to be applied on smart gird are given. The estimation of the performance of LTE in terms of latency and Bandwidth based on the standards from 3GPP is given.