Use of special protection systems to overcome power congestion in the Western United States

Author

Hsu, James ; DeShazo, Gary ; Wong, Willie

Author_Institution

Transmission Syst. Planning Dept., Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1339

Abstract

This paper presents the technical analysis of using special protection systems (SPS) and various fast acting devices to improve the stability performance of the power system and to maximize power transfers. This can minimize the impact of critical disturbances on the existing system or the need for new transmission facility additions to the system. This paper discusses the planning studies and the associated system reliability criteria and the broad technical advantages that can be achieved by utilizing these two types of special protection system for the power congestion mitigation.

Keywords

power system stability; power transmission protection; power transmission reliability; Western Electricity Coordinating Council; Western United States; critical disturbance; critical disturbances impact minimisation; fast acting devices; limited transmission capacity; power congestion mitigation; power system stability performance improvement; power transfers maximisation; simultaneous power transfers; special protection system; synchronism; system reliability criteria; technical analysis; transmission facility additions; voltage collapse; Councils; Nuclear power generation; Performance analysis; Power system interconnection; Power system planning; Power system protection; Power system stability; Power systems; Reliability; Rivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology, 2002. Proceedings. PowerCon 2002. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7459-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPST.2002.1067748

Filename

1067748