Lecture 14 Power Flow

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ECE 476POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS

• Lecture 14Power Flow
• Professor Tom Overbye
• Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering

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Announcements

• Homework 7 is 6.46, 6.49, 6.52, 11.19, 11.21,
  11.27 due date is October 30
• Potential spring courses ECE 431 and ECE 398RES
  (Renewable Electric Energy Systems)
• If interested you can still sign up for a power
  lunch.

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The N-R Power Flow 5-bus Example
Single-line diagram
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The N-R Power Flow 5-bus Example
Table 1. Bus input data
Table 2. Line input data
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The N-R Power Flow 5-bus Example
Table 3. Transformer input data
Table 4. Input data and unknowns
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Time to Close the Hood Let the Computer Do the
Math! (Ybus Shown)
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Ybus Details
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Here are the Initial Bus Mismatches
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And the Initial Power Flow Jacobian
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And the Hand Calculation Details!
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Five Bus Power System Solved
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37 Bus Example Design Case
This is Design Case 2 From Chapter 6
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Good Power System Operation

• Good power system operation requires that there
  be no reliability violations for either the
  current condition or in the event of
  statistically likely contingencies
• Reliability requires as a minimum that there be
  no transmission line/transformer limit violations
  and that bus voltages be within acceptable limits
  (perhaps 0.95 to 1.08)
• Example contingencies are the loss of any single
  device. This is known as n-1 reliability.
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation
  now has legal authority to enforce reliability
  standards (and there are now lots of them). See
  http//www.nerc.com for details (click on
  Standards)

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Looking at the Impact of Line Outages
Opening one line (Tim69-Hannah69) causes an
overload. This would not be allowed
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Contingency Analysis
Contingencyanalysis providesan automaticway of
lookingat all the statisticallylikely
contingencies. Inthis example thecontingency
set Is all the single line/transformeroutages
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Power Flow And Design

• One common usage of the power flow is to
  determine how the system should be modified to
  remove contingencies problems or serve new load
• In an operational context this requires working
  with the existing electric grid
• In a planning context additions to the grid can
  be considered
• In the next example we look at how to remove the
  existing contingency violations while serving new
  load.

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An Unreliable Solution
Case now has nine separate contingencies with
reliability violations
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A Reliable Solution
Previous case was augmented with the addition of
a 138 kV Transmission Line
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Generation Changes and The Slack Bus

• The power flow is a steady-state analysis tool,
  so the assumption is total load plus losses is
  always equal to total generation
• Generation mismatch is made up at the slack bus
• When doing generation change power flow studies
  one always needs to be cognizant of where the
  generation is being made up
• Common options include system slack, distributed
  across multiple generators by participation
  factors or by economics

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Generation Change Example 1
Display shows Difference Flows between original
37 bus case, and case with a BLT138 generation
outage note all the power change is picked up
at the slack
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Generation Change Example 2
Display repeats previous case except now the
change in generation is picked up by other
generators using a participation factor approach
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Voltage Regulation Example 37 Buses
Display shows voltage contour of the power
system, demo will show the impact of generator
voltage set point, reactive power limits, and
switched capacitors
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Real-sized Power Flow Cases

• Real power flow studies are usually done with
  cases with many thousands of buses
• Buses are usually group in to various balancing
  authority areas, with each area doing its own
  interchange control
• Cases also model a variety of different automatic
  control devices, such as generator reactive power
  limits, load tap changing transformers, phase
  shifting transformers, switched capacitors, HVDC
  transmission lines, and (potentially) FACTS
  devices

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Sparse Matrices and Large Systems

• Since for realistic power systems the model sizes
  are quite large, this means the Ybus and Jacobian
  matrices are also large.
• However, most elements in these matrices are
  zero, therefore special techniques, known as
  sparse matrix/vector methods, can be used to
  store the values and solve the power flow
• Without these techniques large systems would be
  essentially unsolvable.

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Eastern Interconnect Example
Example, which models the Eastern
Interconnectcontains about 43,000 buses.
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Solution Log for 1200 MW Gen Outage
In this example wesimulated the lossof a 1200
MWgenerator in NorthernIllinois. This caused
a generation imbalancein the associated
balancing authorityarea, which wascorrected by
a redispatch of localgeneration.
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DC Power Flow

• The DC power flow makes the most severe
  approximations
• completely ignore reactive power, assume all the
  voltages are always 1.0 per unit, ignore line
  conductance
• This makes the power flow a linear set of
  equations, which can be solved directly

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Power System Control

• A major problem with power system operation is
  the limited capacity of the transmission system
• lines/transformers have limits (usually thermal)
• no direct way of controlling flow down a
  transmission line (e.g., there are no valves to
  close to limit flow)
• open transmission system access associated with
  industry restructuring is stressing the system in
  new ways
• We need to indirectly control transmission line
  flow by changing the generator outputs

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DC Power Flow Example
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DC Power Flow 5 Bus Example
Notice with the dc power flow all of the voltage
magnitudes are 1 per unit.
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Indirect Transmission Line Control
What we would like to determine is how a change
in generation at bus k affects the power flow on
a line from bus i to bus j.
The assumption is that the change in generation
is absorbed by the slack bus
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Power Flow Simulation - Before

• One way to determine the impact of a generator
  change is to compare a before/after power flow.
• For example below is a three bus case with an
  overload

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Power Flow Simulation - After
Increasing the generation at bus 3 by 95 MW (and
hence decreasing it at bus 1 by a corresponding
amount), results in a 31.3 drop in the MW flow on
the line from bus 1 to 2.
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Analytic Calculation of Sensitivities

• Calculating control sensitivities by repeat power
  flow solutions is tedious and would require many
  power flow solutions. An alternative approach is
  to analytically calculate these values

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Analytic Sensitivities
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Three Bus Sensitivity Example
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Balancing Authority Areas

• An balancing authority area (use to be called
  operating areas) has traditionally represented
  the portion of the interconnected electric grid
  operated by a single utility
• Transmission lines that join two areas are known
  as tie-lines.
• The net power out of an area is the sum of the
  flow on its tie-lines.
• The flow out of an area is equal to total gen -
  total load - total losses tie-flow

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Area Control Error (ACE)

• The area control error (ace) is the difference
  between the actual flow out of an area and the
  scheduled flow, plus a frequency component
• Ideally the ACE should always be zero.
• Because the load is constantly changing, each
  utility must constantly change its generation to
  chase the ACE.

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Automatic Generation Control

• Most utilities use automatic generation control
  (AGC) to automatically change their generation to
  keep their ACE close to zero.
• Usually the utility control center calculates ACE
  based upon tie-line flows then the AGC module
  sends control signals out to the generators every
  couple seconds.

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Power Transactions

• Power transactions are contracts between
  generators and loads to do power transactions.
• Contracts can be for any amount of time at any
  price for any amount of power.
• Scheduled power transactions are implemented by
  modifying the value of Psched used in the ACE
  calculation

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PTDFs

• Power transfer distribution factors (PTDFs) show
  the linear impact of a transfer of power.
• PTDFs calculated using the fast decoupled power
  flow B matrix

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Nine Bus PTDF Example
Figure shows initial flows for a nine bus power
system
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Nine Bus PTDF Example, cont'd
Figure now shows percentage PTDF flows from A to I
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Nine Bus PTDF Example, cont'd
Figure now shows percentage PTDF flows from G to F
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WE to TVA PTDFs
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Line Outage Distribution Factors (LODFS)

• LODFs are used to approximate the change in the
  flow on one line caused by the outage of a second
  line
• typically they are only used to determine the
  change in the MW flow
• LODFs are used extensively in real-time
  operations
• LODFs are state-independent but do dependent on
  the assumed network topology

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Flowgates

• The real-time loading of the power grid is
  accessed via flowgates
• A flowgate flow is the real power flow on one
  or more transmission element for either base case
  conditions or a single contingency
• contingent flows are determined using LODFs
• Flowgates are used as proxies for other types of
  limits, such as voltage or stability limits
• Flowgates are calculated using a spreadsheet

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NERC Regional Reliability Councils
NERCis theNorthAmericanElectricReliabilityCo
uncil
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NERC Reliability Coordinators