Power System Operation

Course title: Power System Operation

Code: 3ФЕИТ09З022

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+2+0+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Understanding the principles of power system exploitation and the role of individual generators in the operation in terms of power flows, voltages and transmission constraints. Skills for calculations and analysis in the field of exploitation of power system.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Power system operation. Characteristics of demand in power systems. Daily load diagrams and their approximation. Demand forecast for electric power and energy. Basic characteristics of sources of electricity. The role of individual plants in the power balance: thermal and hydro power plants, renewable sources of energy. Transmission grids modeling. The DC model. Relation link between branch flows and generator power outputs. Optimal operation of power system comprised of thermal power plants and transmission network modeled with the DC model. Power system operation in cases with insufficient production and transmission capacities. Interconnections of power system. Safety criteria for the operation of transmission networks. Distribution factors. General problem of economic dispatching. Economic dispatch of power plants - optimization constraints. Impact of the transmission network. Solving engineering problems in voltage regulation and optimal power flows. FACTS devices in power systems.

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