Geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) simulator for power system - Phase I

本提案的目的是开发一个综合评估工具的原型，用于在地磁扰动（GMD）（也称为太阳磁暴）下进行电力系统分析。由于最近制定的国际标准和操作指南，所有高压电力系统都应对其系统进行GMD影响评估，并提供证据表明其系统不容易受到GMD的不利影响，如果发现任何问题，他们需要提供一个有效的解决方案，可以在GMD期间保持互联电力系统的可靠性和完整性。这些标准要求电力系统分析需要先进的方法和解决方案技术，这些方法和技术既不可用，也不足以解决所提出的问题。因此，现有的计算工具还处于起步阶段，只能覆盖整个系统解决方案的一些基本方面。因此，一个新的全面的工具，以准确地涵盖各方面的GMD对电力系统的影响是非常迫切的，在电力行业，电力公司已经显示出他们的兴趣购买和使用这样的工具，如果开发的计算工具提供了一个完整的解决方案，电力系统GMD的影响评估。开发的工具具有运行在实时和离线模式的能力。因此，它可以在电力系统控制室中用于GMD条件下的电网的实时监测和控制，并作为规划和设计具有抗GMD影响的弹性电力系统的离线仿真工具。

The objective of this proposal is to develop a prototype of a comprehensive assessment tool for power system analysis under Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) which is also referred to as solar geomagnetic storm. Due to the recently developed international standards and operation guidelines, all the high voltage power systems should perform the GMD impacts assessment on their systems and provide the evidences showing that their systems are not vulnerable to the detrimental effects of GMD, and in the case of any identified problems, they need to provide an effective solution that can preserve the reliability and integrity of the interconnected power system during the GMD. Such standard mandates require advanced methods and solution techniques for power system analysis which are not either available or accurate enough to address the raised concerns. As a result, the existing computation tools are in their infancy stage and can only cover some basic aspects of the entire system solution. Therefore, a novel comprehensive tool to accurately cover various aspects of the GMD impacts on power systems is highly demanding in power industry, and power utilities have shown their interests to purchase and use such a tool if developed.The proposed computation tool provides a complete solution for power system GMD impact assessment. The developed tool has the capability of running in real-time and offline modes. Thus, it can be employed in power system control rooms for real-time monitoring and control of the grid under the GMD conditions and as an offline simulation tool for planning and design of the resilient power system with immunity to the GMD impacts.