WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review

Global energy demand pushes transmission lines to their limits, which causes voltage instability on the power grids. Solar and wind farms are being integrated with increased size and capacity to meet increased load demands, and this increased volumes of renewables, combined with their lower inertia...

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Main Authors: Raju Chintakindi, Arghya Mitra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-04-01
Series:Energy Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721013615
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description Global energy demand pushes transmission lines to their limits, which causes voltage instability on the power grids. Solar and wind farms are being integrated with increased size and capacity to meet increased load demands, and this increased volumes of renewables, combined with their lower inertia and more sensitive voltage profiles, are complicating system operators’ roles. The execution of phasor measurement unit (PMU) with novel detection and protection schemes has been a focal point for power engineers. The real-time wide-area monitoring system (WAMS) helps grid operators to improve real-time voltage stability, situational awareness, fault detection, and grid planning. WAMS shows the path for developing substation predictions, improving system accuracy, and identifying control strategies to avoid power blackouts. It conducts post-event analysis and reduces the processing time of the power restoration. The novelty of this article is to describe load modeling, voltage stability, and islanding protection in real-time, as well as the technical challenges, limitations, opportunities, and solutions related to the same. Further, the paper explores and presents vital software and hardware resources, including HIL systems, for future use and research with WAMS technology.
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spelling doaj.art-96e438662c0f40f6b317bcea2dfe5ab92022-12-22T02:03:47ZengElsevierEnergy Reports2352-48472022-04-018699709WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A reviewRaju Chintakindi0Arghya Mitra1Corresponding author.; Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, 440010, IndiaVisvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, 440010, IndiaGlobal energy demand pushes transmission lines to their limits, which causes voltage instability on the power grids. Solar and wind farms are being integrated with increased size and capacity to meet increased load demands, and this increased volumes of renewables, combined with their lower inertia and more sensitive voltage profiles, are complicating system operators’ roles. The execution of phasor measurement unit (PMU) with novel detection and protection schemes has been a focal point for power engineers. The real-time wide-area monitoring system (WAMS) helps grid operators to improve real-time voltage stability, situational awareness, fault detection, and grid planning. WAMS shows the path for developing substation predictions, improving system accuracy, and identifying control strategies to avoid power blackouts. It conducts post-event analysis and reduces the processing time of the power restoration. The novelty of this article is to describe load modeling, voltage stability, and islanding protection in real-time, as well as the technical challenges, limitations, opportunities, and solutions related to the same. Further, the paper explores and presents vital software and hardware resources, including HIL systems, for future use and research with WAMS technology.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721013615Wide-area monitoringPhasor measurement unitVoltage stabilityLoad modelingControl-islandingRenewable energy integration
spellingShingle Raju Chintakindi
Arghya Mitra
WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
Energy Reports
Wide-area monitoring
Phasor measurement unit
Voltage stability
Load modeling
Control-islanding
Renewable energy integration
title WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
title_full WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
title_fullStr WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
title_full_unstemmed WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
title_short WAMS challenges and limitations in load modeling, voltage stability improvement, and controlled island protection—A review
title_sort wams challenges and limitations in load modeling voltage stability improvement and controlled island protection a review
topic Wide-area monitoring
Phasor measurement unit
Voltage stability
Load modeling
Control-islanding
Renewable energy integration
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721013615
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