Operational Experiences with SVCs for Local and Remote Disturbances

Author

Pourbeik, Pouyan ; Bostrom, Anders ; John, Eric ; Basu, Mrinmoy

Author_Institution

ABB

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

444

Lastpage

450

Abstract

This paper presents the operational experiences with SVCs in the San Francisco Bay Area transmission system, operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Company. The two SVCs, at Newark substation in the East San Francisco Bay, and the Potrero switching station located in the City of San Francisco, were installed in 2002 and 2004, respectively. The intent of this paper is to show actual SVC operation during local and remote disturbances and make a comparison to expected behavior based on previous simulation and study work. The events recorded and discussed in this paper were recorded by the ABB MACH2 control & protection system transient fault recorder

Keywords

power system protection; power system simulation; power transmission faults; static VAr compensators; substations; ABB MACH2 transient fault recorder; Newark substation; Pacific Gas & Electric Company; Potrero switching station; SVC; San Francisco Bay Area transmission system; power system disturbances; static VAr compensators; Cities and towns; Control systems; Inductors; Power system transients; Protection; Reactive power; Static VAr compensators; Substations; Thyristors; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2006. PSCE '06. 2006 IEEE PES

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0177-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0178-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PSCE.2006.296353

Filename

4075792