WEBINAR | Part 3 | Testing and Validation of Power Systems Operations and Controls with Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)

​Role of ePHASORSIM for Wide-area Control Design

GE Renewable Energy - Grid operators are facing new challenges in managing the power system due to lower inertia, more renewables and increased penetration of distributed generation. The advent of Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) provided operators with much greater insight into the dynamic behaviour of power systems which is now evolving to include control functionality to manage these fast dynamics. Wide-area observability within a control scheme provides the ability to develop new techniques for control which can take into account the larger power system behaviour, while co-ordinating the response across the grid where many resources can make up a response, including distributed generation.

However, the design and validation of wide-are-control schemes can be a challenge due to the number signals and possible resources available. In addition, as every power system is different, each wide-area control scheme must be tailored for that system. ePHASORSIM from OPAL-RT provides an ideal platform to enhance this process, incorporating a customer power system model in a closed loop environment which brings significant benefits to accelerating the evolution of wide-area control systems and delivering maximum value to the customers.

Biography:

Dr. Sean Norris is a Senior Power Systems Engineer with GE Renewables based in Edinburgh, UK. He received his B.Eng from University College Cork, Ireland in 2009 and PhD from Durham University, UK in 2014. Seán’s areas of expertise include wide-area monitoring and control of power systems, control system application design, power system stability and operation under emergency conditions and fast frequency control. His current projects focus on the design and implementation of innovative fast wide-area control schemes to enhance grid stability.