Course Description:

This course gives a functional description of the transmission system, control, maintenance, and lightning protection as well as the routine maintenance requirements of the overhead lines and underground cable. The course laso covers lightning over voltages and physical phenomenon of lightning, interaction between lightning and power system, and switching over voltages. Advanced load-flow methods, especially, power system state estimate, security-constrained economic dispatch, active and reactive power dispatch and optimal capacitor allocation are included

Course Goal:

To enhance the delegate knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand Power System Operation (LDC)

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

1. Be familiar with electricity market design and price formation
2. Understand basic concepts on power system analysis, nonlinear programming and optimality conditions are reviewed.
3. Be familiar with advanced load flow methods, sparsity techniques and optimal ordering, power system state estimation.
4. Be familiar with solution methods of the economic dispatch problem.
5. Be familiar with switching over-voltages.

Course Outlines:

• Introduction: ”Electricity market design and price formation”

• 1. General Background – Power system operation and security.
  2. Types of over-voltage in power systems.
  3. Reactive power regulating devices.
  4. Power system operation fundamentals- System Monitoring.
  5. System state estimation.
  6. Contingency analysis.
  7. Recommended background: Basic understanding of power system engineering.
  8. Role of the independent system operator in pool versus bilateral markets.

• Economic Dispatch:

• 1. Fundamentals of Economic Dispatch.
  2. Characteristics and models of Generating Units.
  3. Formulation of economic dispatch problem.
  4. Economic dispatch methods.
  5. Shunt Elements.
  6. Generation scheduling in deregulation, transmission pricing paradigms.
  7. Cogeneration management, transmission rights, ancillary services.
  8. Pricing and security management in deregulation.
  9. Country-specific information provided on various operational aspects of restructured power systems worldwide.

• Basic concepts on power system analysis, nonlinear programming and optimality conditions are reviewed.

• 1. Factorization and orthogonal methods for the solution of linear systems and least-square problems.
  2. Optimization techniques – Linear programming solution.
  3. Optimal power flow.

• Advanced load flow methods, sparsity techniques and optimal ordering, power system state estimation:

• 1. Security – constrained economic dispatch.
  2. Reactive power dispatch.
  3. Optimal capacitor allocation
  4. The methods of voltage control in power systems.
  5. Synchronous condenser and static shunt compensator.

• Solution methods of the economic dispatch problem:
• Switching over-voltages.

• 1. Recovery transient initiated by the opening of circuit breaker.
  2. Double frequency transient.
  3. Current suppression.
  4. Capacitance switching.

• Case Study-Discussion-Evaluation.

Who Can Benefit?

All engineers and technicians involved in the power sectors and power station operation, planning, and maintenance, and also in the factories, and enterprises, especially in dispatching load center.