| Objectives
Power systems have traditionally
been operated based on a background of previously performed studies and
on the experience of dispatcher operators. Such practice usually leads
to conservative limits and cannot often comply with market requirements
to fully exploit power system equipment, plants and facilities and with
transparency criteria in case of conflictual decisions imposed by regulating
bodies. On the other hand, the operator may have to face new operating
conditions brought about by the restructured power market and may lack
adequate experience to operate the system, the current trend being to
operate power systems closer and closer to their limits. This results
in increased risks of instability, both of the transient and of the voltage
type. These considerations emphasise the need for accurate evaluation
of security, performed on different phases of power system operation and
in particular made available to the control room operator for on-line
assessment and preventive action implementation.
The tremendous advances in computer science and technologies have permitted
significant application of methodologies concerning Dynamic Security Assessment
(DSA) that have been developed in the last decades and that have recently
found the technical support and environment for on-line applications.
In the DSA context, a research project partially supported by the European
Union within the aims of the Framework V- Energy scheme and named OMASES
– Open Market Access and Security Assessment System has produced
interesting results. OMASES developed an integrated DSA tool that attempts
to cope with the above mentioned challenging requirements.
The course focuses on DSA functions like Transient Stability Assessment
(TSA), Voltage Stability Assessment, Training Simulator. An overview and
a detailed though synthetic presentation of analytical methods, technologies
and experimentations are presented. The aim is to generate a basic although
comprehensive knowledge of security assessment and control problems for
potential attendees that are typically PhD students, researchers, junior
transmission system operators.
Coordinators
Prof.
Stefano Massucco in cooperation with Prof. Thierry Van Cutsem and Louis
Wehenkel
Stefano Massucco has been active for 25 years in the
field of large and industrial power system management and control. The
experience he gained both at University and at the industry (Enel Electric
Research Center and Ansaldo S.p.A.) has dealt with modelling and control
of production, transmission and distribution systems, power system stability
and dynamic security evaluation by the operator in network control centers
and industrial plant control rooms. He covered issues regarding power
system automation by means of such innovative techniques as artificial
intelligence, development of models for turbogas and combined-cycle generating
units, load shedding strategies to face emergency conditions in power
systems. Over the last years he has dealt with liberalized energy market,
definition of ancillary service technical and economical features, role
of load in power system security and economics. Prof. Massucco is involved,
also as a promoter, in research and development projects financed by European
Union, MIUR, CESI, private companies. He participated in CIGRE and IEEE
workgroups and task forces. He is a member of AEI, IEEE, CEI 11 D Committee
for the definition of power plants-network interface.
Prof. Massucco is author of several scientific publications in power systems.
He is official referee for IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, on Energy
Conversion, on Automatic Control and of IEE Proceedings on Generation
Transmission and Distribution. He is a member of the Scientific Committees
of a number of International Symposia and Session chairman.
He is Full Professor of Power System Automation at the University of Genoa
and coordinator of PhD courses in Electrical Engineering.
Instructors
Massimo
Gallanti
CESI
Italy
Rafael
Lopez
Areva
Stefano
Massucco
University of Genova
Italy
Mania
Pavella
University of Liege
Belgium
Massimo
Pozzi
CESI
Italy
Marino
Sforna
GRTN
Italy
Marc
Stubbe
Tractebel
Thierry
Van Cutsem
University of Liege
Belgium
Costas
Vournas
Thecnical University of Athens
Greece
Louis
Wehenkel
University of Liege
Belgium
Course
duration and location
Three days,
from Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd November at Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Genova, via Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova –
Italy.
Courses Contents
New trends and perspectives
in research funding for Large Power Systems Operation and Security (invited
speaker)
Power System Operation
and Control: current problems and perspectives (Stefano Massucco)
The electricity market:
an overview of structure and new constraints to power system operation
(Massimo Gallanti).
EMS - Energy Management
Centers: actual situation and possibilities offered by emerging technologies
(Rafael Lopez)
Transient Security
Assessment and Control: methodologies and tools for preventive and emergency
control (Mania Pavella, Louis Wehenkel)
Voltage Stability
Assessment: methodologies and tools (Thierry Van Cutsem, Costas Vournas)
Dynamic Security Assessment
in EMS environment: the Italian situation for normal and emergency operation
(Marino Sforna)
Power System Simulators:
models and tools for analysis and for training (Massimo Pozzi, Marc Stubbe)
Example of DSA analysis
(Thierry Van Cutsem, Louis Wehenkel)
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