Short-circuit simulations help quantify wheeling flow

Author

Scarfone, Allen

Author_Institution

Northeast Utilities, Hartford, CT, USA

Volume

8

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

47

Abstract

New England transmission system owners use the results from short-circuit simulations to quantify the transmission wheeling services they provide to deliver power from the Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plants. The wheeling service of a transmitting utility, defined in terms of MW-miles, is determined with the use of fault currents to reflect the flow of MW entitlements over the New England transmission system. The use of commercially available software to automate simulations, perform the MW-miles calculation, and tabulate the results significantly reduces the time and computational effort

Keywords

power system analysis computing; power system interconnection; power transmission; short-circuit currents; transmission network calculations; Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant; MW-miles calculation; Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant; New England transmission system; Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant; commercially available software; fault currents; short-circuit simulations; transmission wheeling services; wheeling flow; Contracts; Impedance; Intrusion detection; Power markets; Power system interconnection; Propagation losses; Road transportation; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Applications in Power, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0895-0156

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/67.372676

Filename

372676