Course Description

Power system operations and control continue to be utility mission-critical activities, focused on the reliability and security of the grid as well as on economic dispatch of the system. in this course, participants will learn the fundamentals of power system dispatchers as well as fossil fuel and hydroelectric generating station switchboard and control operators.

Course Objectives

·         Being familiar with the constraints in power system operation

·         Understanding principles of frequency control     

·         Learing voltage and power flow control principles

·         Being familar with Real and Reactive Power Scheduling

·         Understanding the fundamentals of Preventive, Emergency and Restorative Control

·         Practicing Power System Structures planning and coordination

Who Should Attend?

·         Power plant and system operators

·         System planners

·         System security monitors

·         Electric power marketers and brokers

PROGRAM TOPICS

·         Overview of power system operations and control

·         Security analysis framework

·         Role of the EMS (energy management system)

·         Optimal power flows

·         Optimization

·         Economic dispatch problems

·         Formulation of optimal power flow problem

·         Solution methods

·         Objective functions and representation of constraints

·         Applications to dispatch and rescheduling

·         Pricing information and spot pricing

·         Role of reactive power

·         Resource scheduling and commitment

·         Nature of resource scheduling problem

·         Time hierarchies

·         Objectives and constraints

·         Key functions and their interrelationships

·         Unit commitment and hydro-thermal coordination

·         Role in EMS

·         State estimation

·         Fundamental notions

·         Static state estimation - role and formulation

·         The least squares state estimation solution

·         Constrained weighted least squares estimation

·         Measurement requirements

·         Observability

·         Bad data identification/ detection, analysis and processing

·         Electricity restructuring

·         Transition from monopoly to competition

·         Competitive electricity markets

·         Market design

·         Interrelationships between various markets

·         Impacts of restructuring and competition

·         Unbundling

·         Nature of transmission services

·         Congestion management

·         Ancillary services

·         Informational needs