Northwest Workforce Training on Smart Grid > Undergraduate Courses > U2

Course Description

photo of an electric windmillGoals

To introduce students to

  1. fundamentals of power-flow calculations
  2. different concepts of stability including voltage stability, small-signal stability and transient stability
  3. principles of optimal generation dispatch

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to

  1. Understand the principles of how real power and reactive power flow from the generators and VAR sources to the loads through the transmission network
  2. Analyze the stability properties of a power system under steady-state conditions and when subject to disturbances
  3. Understand the principles of how to minimize the total cost of generation by optimal dispatch of real power from multiple generators
  4. Apply the learnt principles for steady-state and dynamic analysis of test power systems

Textbook

Power System Analysis by J. J. Grainger and W. D. Stevenson Jr., McGraw Hill Inc.
ISBN: 0-07-061293-5

Additional Material

  1. Lecture material and reference books
  2. Web material

Course Prerequisites by Topic

  1. Basics of Electrical Power systems (Course U1)

Topics

  1. Power System components:
    1. Brief review of U1: AC power concepts, Transmission line models
  2. Power-flow Analysis
    1. Power-flow equations
    2. Solution methods: Newton-Raphson, Fast decoupled, DC power-flow
    3. State Estimation
  3. Economic Operation
    1. Classical economic dispatch
    2. Other topics: Hydrothermal coordination, Optimal power-flow problem
  4. Stability Concepts
    1. Dynamic models of synchronous machines
    2. Stability concepts and analysis

Course Structure

Computer Resources

Lecture material and homework assignments are posted on the class web page

Grading

50% on the homework
50% on the final exam

 
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