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Power System Wide‐Area Stability Analysis and Control

Jing Ma


State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power
System with Renewable Energy Sources
North China Electric Power University
Beijing, PR China











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About the Author

Professor Jing Ma has been working in this area since 2003. His research mainly concentrates in the area of power system protection and control. A very systematic research and practice on power system wide‐area stability analysis and control, especially the approaches on the small‐signal stability analysis and studies on the novel principle of wide‐area robust and adaptive control, have been carried out over more than 12 years. He was the first to apply Guardian Map Theory, Perturbation Theory, and the Markov Model to fully consider the characteristics of large time‐delay and high uncertainties into the power system stability analysis process. He also invented a variety of robust and adaptive control strategies using the Federated Kalman Filter, Dual Youla Parameterization and Classification, and the Regression Tree to establish a wide‐area control system with high accuracy and efficiency. A series of papers was published in the authoritative journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. The work has been widely acknowledged and cited by international peers. Part of his research results was used in many practical engineering projects, which highly accelerate the application and spread of wide‐area control technology. In recent years, he has published more than 30 papers (indexed by SCI), authorized more than 20 patents, and undertaken many major projects in China. For instance, he guided two projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China to study the Stability and Coordinated Control for a Complicated Power System. He set up an advanced wide‐area protection and control platform for stability analysis of a power system, and pioneered to design and realize the corresponding control techniques. He was also responsible for several projects from governments and enterprises on the study of wide‐area stability analysis and control. He was also a major member of the National Key Research and Development Plan of China on the study of the Wide‐Area Protection and Control for Complicated Power Systems. He cooperated with the China Electric Power Research Institute to guide the exploitation of the integrated protection and control system of substation areas and wide areas. He has been teaching the courses of Power System Automation for years. Many materials of the book have been taught to students and other professionals.

Preface

Power system stability has been a key issue in the “three defense lines” of power system security defense in China, and has drawn the continuous attention of many researchers. With the large‐scale integration of renewable energy sources and the wide application of power electronic devices, the stability problem caused by grid interconnection has become ever prominent, greatly endangering the safe and stable operation of a power system, even causing blackouts, which result in immeasurable losses to the society and the economy. Therefore, the stability of the power grid under new circumstances and trends requires the in‐depth exploration and research of all electric power practitioners.

Challenges usually come with innovation and opportunities. With the development and wide application of PMU technology, wide‐area information from WAMS has provided abundant synchronous and dynamic information for the stability analysis and control of a large complex power grid. It is an issue of great theoretical value and practical significance in the smart grid research to combine PMU technology with stability control, so that the safety of the power grid can be guaranteed to most users. Currently, many problems in wide‐area stability control are yet to be solved. For example, it is the basis and premise of wide‐area stability control to conduct system stability identification, instability mode identification, and stability region calculation in a complex time‐varying grid with time delay and uncertainties. Meanwhile, it is the goal and task of wide‐area stability control to design reasonable and effective robust and adaptive control strategies to solve the problems of lack‐of‐control, over‐control, and out‐of‐control in the power grid. By summarizing the existing research achievements and learning from the advantages and disadvantages of traditional stability control, this book conducts a prospective discussion on the key techniques in wide‐area stability control, such as wide‐area signal monitoring, wide‐area stability analysis, and wide‐area control strategies, etc. The discussion is centered on research achievements of the author, and is presented in great breadth and depth, endeavoring to point out the evolving direction of wide‐area stability control.

The author strives to make the basic theories simple and the formula derivations precise and complete. On this basis, through a large number of case studies, rigorous verification that fits the engineering practice is carried out concerning the wide‐area stability control schemes introduced in the book. It should be noted that, since wide‐area stability control is still developing, the contents in this book may not be the final solutions. For the issues that have not gained unified understanding, the author has put forward distinct viewpoints in the book. It is the author’s sincere hope that readers will be inspired by this book to pursue better achievements in their research. Due to limited space, references are provided for the issues that cannot be discussed in detail, so that readers could study them in depth.

This book is readable by graduate students in universities, technical personnel in research institutes, and professionals with certain theoretical knowledge and practical experience in their research on wide‐area stability control and relevant technological innovations. Mistakes are inevitable in the book and any criticism from readers will be welcome.

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51277193), the Chinese University Scientific Fund Project (No. 2014ZZD02), Beijing Metropolis Beijing Nova program (Z141101001814012), the Excellent Talents in Beijing City (2013B009005000001), and the Fund of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (141057).

Jing Ma

Beijing, China
2016