Operational reliability assessment of an interconnected power system based on an online updating external network equivalent model with boundary PMU

Abstract

Information between interconnected power systems is difficult to share in real time, due to trade secrets and technical limitations. The regional power grid cannot timely detect the impact of changes in the operation mode of the external power grid on the regional reliability, due to faults, load fluctuations, power generation plan adjustments, and other reasons. How to evaluate the reliability of a regional power system under the conditions of information isolation is a difficult problem for the security of interconnected power systems. Aiming at this problem, an operational reliability evaluation method for an interconnected power system is proposed herein, which does not depend on external network information directly, but only uses boundary phasor measurement unit (PMU) measurement data and internal network information. A static equivalent model with sensitivity consistency was used to simplify the external network to ensure the accuracy of the reliability calculation of interconnected power systems. The boundary PMU measurement data were used to update the external network equivalent model online. The algorithm flow of the operation reliability assessment for the interconnected power grid is given. The results of an example based on the IEEE-RTS-96 test system show that the proposed method can track the equivalent parameters of the external network without depending on the actual topological information, and calculate the reliability index of the internal network accurately.