| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M96506/01 |
| Title: |
ESR21:COMPUTING THE VALUE OF POWER SYSTEM SECURITY: EXTENSIONS & APPLICATIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Kirschen, Professor D |
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Electrical Engineering & Electronics |
| Organisation: |
UMIST |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
14 March 2000 |
Ends: |
13 March 2003 |
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97,736
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| Power Sys Man, Prot & Control |
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A power system is always operated with a significant security margin to ensure that faults and other unscheduled outages do not automatically trigger consumer disconnections or a collapse of the entire system. Since the introduction of competition in the electricity supply industry, the cost of this security margin has become much more apparent. Consequently, the electricity regulator OFFER and others have questioned whether the criteria used to set this margin produce an appropriate level of security. In a previous EPSRC project ( A Method for Computing the Value of Security , GR/x80310) the authors of this proposal developed a probabilistic method and a software tool for performing a cost/benefit analysis of various levels of security.This project extends this line of research and further investigates the application of probabilistic methods to power system security in the operational timeframe. In particular, it will apply data mining to the intermediate results of the Monte Carlo simulation to identify the critical equipments and the prevalent modes of failure. It will also develop adaptive deterministic security criteria and an index measuring the level of stress in the system. Finally it will investigate the use of sequential simulation to enhance the modelling of time-dependent phenomena.
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