Limitations and Interactions of Bulk Power Transfers in Large Scale Electric Powers Systems

这个项目是作为美国国家科学基金会研究中心-小型企业合作研发计划的一部分进行的，由康奈尔/加州大学伯克利分校/伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校/威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校电力系统工程中心领导，该中心是由美国国家科学基金会建立的IUCRC。这个项目的动机是这样一个事实，即北美竞争激烈的电力市场预计会产生许多优势，这取决于一个开放的输电网，能够灵活地响应长距离大量电力传输的需求。事实上，这种电力转移对于电力市场的竞争至关重要。电力系统的可用传输能力表示在不影响系统安全性的情况下可以增加多少区域间的电力传输。准确识别这一能力为大容量电力市场的运作提供了重要信息。在这个迅速发展的领域中，有必要对现有转移能力计算方法的各种方法进行综合，并将其传达给工业界。该项目将通过编写关于所开发的方法及其与以前工作的关系的教程来解决这一需求。将开发演示软件来说明概念和计算。教程和演示软件将放在万维网上，这样任何有浏览器的人都可以了解项目结果，并在网上交互式地运行演示。这是威斯康星大学、康奈尔大学和Christensen Associates（一家位于威斯康星州麦迪逊的小公司）之间的合作项目。

9815678ThomasThis project is carried out as a part of the NSF Research Centers - Small Firms Collaborative R&D initiative, under the leadership of the Cornell/UC-Berkeley/UI-Urbana/UW-Madison Center for Power Systems Engineering, an IUCRC established by the National Science Foundation.This project is motivated by the fact that many of the advantages expected to accrue from a competitive electric power market in North America depend upon an open transmission grid, capable of a flexible response to demands for long distance bulk power transfers. Indeed, such power transfers are essential to a competitive market for electric power. Power system available transfer capability indicates how much interarea power transfers can be increased without compromising system security. Accurate identification of this capability provides vital information for operation of the bulk power market. There is a need in this rapidly developing field to synthesize a coherent account of the various approaches to the methods underlying available transfer capability calculations and communicate this to industry. The project will address this need by writing a tutorial on the methods developed and their relation to previous work. Demonstration software to illustrate the concepts and calculations will be developed. The tutorial and demonstration software will be placed on the world wide web so that anyone with a browser can understand the project results and interactively run the demonstrations over the web. This is a collaborative project between the University of Wisconsin, Cornell University and Christensen Associates, a small firm located in Madison, WI.