Optimal Multistage PMU Placement for Wide-Area Monitoring

Author

Wen, Miles H. F. ; Jin Xu ; Li, Victor O. K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 2013

Firstpage

4134

Lastpage

4143

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel optimization model to maximize the power system observability by placing phasor measurement units (PMUs) in a multistage manner. The problem is constrained by the financial budgets available at each installation stage. The budget may be spent on purchasing and installing new PMUs and relocating PMUs already installed in the power system. This problem is very difficult to solve when the problem size becomes big. Therefore, a newly developed meta-heuristic, called chemical reaction optimization (CRO), is used to solve this optimal multistage PMU placement problem (OMPP), and numerical studies are carried out on the IEEE 57-bus, 118-bus, and 300-bus systems.

Keywords

IEEE standards; optimisation; phasor measurement; CRO; IEEE 118-bus system; IEEE 300-bus system; IEEE 57-bus system; OMPP; chemical reaction optimization; optimal multistage PMU placement problem; phasor measurement unit; power system observability; wide-area monitoring; Chemicals; Monitoring; Observability; Optimization; Phasor measurement units; Power systems; Chemical reaction optimization (CRO); optimal PMU placement; phasor measurement unit (PMU); power system monitoring; smart grid; synchrophasor;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2277741

Filename

6583313