Project Directory

This project is developing a new approach for conditioning and validating synchrophasor data for real-time applications with the aim of providing experience-based recommendations for making the synchrophasor infrastructure more robust. Demonstration of a prototype is currently underway in partnership with Dominion Virginia Power.

The objective of this effort was to adapt the existing Pserc software platform (PowerWeb) so that it can be used effectively to test alternative ways of providing reactive power (primarily dynamic VArs) in a deregulated market.

This project is demonstrating full-scale, on-line and off-line software prototype tools with Entergy, WECC, and Peak RC that detect and analyze system oscillations from either ambient or disturbed system PMU measurements. In contrast to other tools, these prototypes are capable of simultaneously processing hundreds of PMU measurements-rather than only a handful. Therefore, they can estimate oscillation characteristics such as the frequency, damping ratio, energy and mode shape of both local and inter-area oscillations across the wide-area power system.

In FY14, DOE initiated a scoping study to identify potential uses and benefits of installing phasor measurement units (PMUs) within electricity distribution systems and the associated research and development that is required to realize these benefits.

This project is conducting optimization-based analyses to examine: (a) new reserve policies for contingency-based reserves and ramping products, which may be needed to compensate for resource uncertainty; (b) the possible creation of dynamic zonal reserve policies; and (c) the creation of response-set reserve policies that specify a set of generators (or resources providing reserves) that will respond given a specific event—while taking into consideration network limitations.

Industry awareness of FIDVR, though it was not always referred to by this name, dates to technical papers that have appeared in the literature since the 1990s.

This project was designed to continue the coordinated program in the theory, design and testing of multidimensional markets for energy, reserves and other ancillary services, and the integration of active demand-side participation to form self-regulating markets.  New experiments were developed to determine the effects of transfers on native load LMP, voltage profiles and market power.

The primary objectives of this proposal were to (1) evaluate the effects of different types of storage on annual system costs and performance, (2) evaluate the effects of ramping on annual system costs and performance, (3) develop appropriate rate structures and incentives to promote distributed resource participation in coordinated aggregation schemes, (4) develop distributed resource models and control algorithms that accurately capture the aggregate demand-side flexibility as managed by an aggregator, (5) determine the system value of offering demand-side flexibility into a wholesale mar

Southern California Edison operates some of the load management programs in the United States. Many of the technologies relied upon by the programs date back to the late 1970’s. This project reviewed and made recommendations to modernize aspects of the program to better meet the needs of the restructured California electric power system.

The purpose of this task is to generalize the load model development and calibration methodology developed for WECC to address the FIDVR phenomenon in planning studies.  Specifically, residential and commercial building load models must explicitly identify the load composition by electrical characteristics (i.e., static power, impedance, 1 and 3 phase motors, motor torque/speed characteristics, motor inertia, variable speed drive, and motor protection characteristics).

The overall objective of this project is to develop a framework to assess the impact on bulk power system performance of distributed energy resources (DERs) when coordinated (via an aggregator) to provide ancillary services (e.g., frequency regulation). Of special interest is understanding the potential negative effects of failures in channels utilized by the aggregator to exchange information with the individual DERs and the hardware used to implement the DER local control.

The NERC-FMA real-time tool has the capability for automatically collect interconnections 1-second frequency phasor data together with 10-second and 1-minute interconnections SCADA ACE data to calculate, estimate statistics, display, and report the interconnections frequency behavior for allowing NERC Resources Subcommittee during their quarterly meetings and Operations Management to analyze, assess and track each interconnection frequency performance and define and recommend corrective measures if necessary.