Power network state estimation algorithms and their use with synchrophasors

This article studies an algorithm for state estimation in electric power networks, adding information from phasor measurement units (PMU) to the classical SCADA data. This work describes the implementation in MatLab of one of the algorithms found in the literature and the migration of the code to C++ in order to test its time performance. The algorithm was tested on the 39 bus IEEE case study. A good tracking of the waveforms was achieved even in cases of three phase short-circuits or drastic load changes. Execution times obtained in C++ in regular desk computers where short enough to predict a suitable real time performance.