Integrating Dynamic Optimization Methodologies with WAMS technologies

Modern real-time measurement equipments and associated communication/computing networks allow developing advanced power system control architectures able to identify dangerous states of the network, and, when necessary, evaluate and apply remedial control actions. An approach, derived by a dynamic optimization methodology, for evaluating response-based control actions and improving power system security, is presented. In this paper, studies performed on response-based architectures for a wide-area control of transient phenomena are reviewed and compared with the results of a full-scale experiment performed under an international cooperation experience. The comparison of the results is aimed to investigate the feasibility of integrating advanced monitoring and control technologies with dynamic optimization methodologies.