Simulation Study of the World’s First Distributed Premium Power Quality Park

This paper describes the performance of the world’s first premium power park (PPP) located at the Delaware Industrial Park in Delaware, Ohio. Issues such as the need for a supervisor system to coordinate the responses of the different power quality devices and the study of the combined operation or interaction of a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR), a static var compensator (SVC), and a transfer switch in close electrical proximity are discussed in this paper. The system response to different power disturbances is simulated in EMTP-ATPdraw and compared to field measurements. The PPP presented here is just an approach to a premium power system, which is considered the next step in the evolution of power quality.