Potential DC system support to enhance AC system performance in the Western United States

Author

Lee, R.L. ; Melvold, D.J. ; Szumlas, D.J. ; Le, L.M. ; Finley, A.T. ; Martin, D.E. ; Wong, W.K. ; Dickmander, D.L.

Author_Institution

Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power, CA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

2/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

274

Abstract

The potentials of utilizing the controllability of DC lines to reduce the complexity of remedial schemes or to increase the stability performance of a system so that the impact of existing and future projects on nonproject systems can be minimized are explored. Less costly and perhaps more environmentally acceptable alternatives of utilizing power transfer overloads of the two existing DC lines of the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSSC) in the Western US are presented. In addition, a concept to overload one DC line for the outage of the other DC line is investigated. Reducing the complexity of the remedial action scheme would be definite benefit to the WSCC network operating reliability objective

Keywords

DC transmission networks; power system stability; AC system performance; DC system support; Western Systems Coordinating Council; Western United States; power transfer overloads; Controllability; Force control; HVDC transmission; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Power system interconnection; Power system reliability; Power system stability; Samarium; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.221231

Filename

221231