EES/UETP Course «New challenges to ancillary services regulation and operation»

I. Egido F.M. Echavarren

November 2007 - November 2007

Funding entity Inscripciones participantes, Electric Energy Systems - University Enterprise Training Partnership Association (EES-UETP)

This course aims at providing a forum to discuss issues related with the new challenges in ancillary services regulation an operation. The main topics that will be addressed in the course are:
• Current regulation and procurement of ancillary services, specifically load frequency control and voltage control. International experiences will be presented.
• System security and emergency operation. Current practices.
• Prospective of generation ancillary services from the supply side. Changes in current structure and new proposals (pumping units, wind generators, etc.).
• Integration of active participation of the demand side. Ancillary services supplied by demands. Possibilities, procurement mechanisms and limitations. Load shedding and financial agreements keeping quality of supply requirements.

Research topics:
• *Steady-state: Load flows, analysis of power system constraints, optimal load flows, voltage control ancilliary service,short-circuits, protections in transmission and ditribution networks
• *Automatic Generation Control: Design and tuning of AGC regulators, identification of power plant models, primary and secondary regulation ancilliary services,
• *Stability: Large disturbance stability, tuning of frequency loadshedding schemes, excitation control, small disturbance stability, tuning of power system stabilizers, identification of AVR and governor models

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