Advanced utility analytics with object oriented database technology

In general, severe and wide-area electric power system outages tend to have two recurring causes. These are lack of situational awareness and breakdown or faulty behaviour of protection and control systems due to multiple power system elements failing which pushes the grid beyond its design criteria. Recent reports about detrimental wide area outage events have more specifically stated that causes were due, in part, to “lack of awareness of deteriorating conditions.” They pointed out that the technology now exists to establish real-time transmission monitoring systems based on a measurement network composed of synchrophasors. Those reports recommended to establish real-time measurement systems and develop computer based operational and management tools. This paper provides broad implications for situational awareness using object oriented database technology. It reports on the broader implication of the adoption of object oriented database technology on the situational awareness of the Smart Grid.