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

9815678托马斯本项目是NSF研究中心-小型企业合作研发计划的一部分，由康奈尔大学/加州大学伯克利分校/UI-Urbana/UW-Madison电力系统工程中心领导，该中心是由国家科学基金会建立的IUCRC。该项目的动机是，北美竞争激烈的电力市场预期产生的许多优势依赖于开放的输电网，能够灵活地响应长距离大规模电力传输的需求。事实上，这种电力转移对于竞争激烈的电力市场至关重要。电力系统可用输电能力是指在不影响系统安全的情况下可以增加多少区域间电力输送。对这一能力的准确识别为大规模电力市场的运营提供了重要信息。在这个快速发展的领域中，需要综合各种方法的连贯说明，以确定可用输电能力计算的基本方法，并将其传达给业界。该项目将通过编写一份关于开发的方法及其与以前工作的关系的教程来满足这一需求。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，并在网上互动地运行演示。这是威斯康星大学、康奈尔大学和位于威斯康星州麦迪逊的小公司Christensen Associates合作的项目。

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.