IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP09PPS-PRT 978-1-4244-3810-5

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition (PSCE)

Seattle, Washington, USA15 – 18 March 2009

Pages 1-693

PSCE 2009 Table of Contents

Track 1: System-Wide Events and Analysis Methods Power System Dynamic Performance 1 Chair: Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University Co-Chair: Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance A System Wide Scheme for Mitigation of Voltage Instability Turaj Amraee; Rene Feuillet; AliMohammad Ranjbar and Babak Mozafari ........................... 1 Design and Implementation of a New Onload Voltage Regulator for Power Distribution Systems R. R. de Lima; G. C. Guimaraes; Aloí-sio de Oliveira; M. L. R. Chaves; P. R. C. Silva and VinÃ-cius Benichio ..................................................................................... 8 Implementation of a Control Strategy for Dynamic Voltage Restorer(DVR) and Dynamic Voltage Compensator(DVC) Ahad Kazemi and Ali Azhdast ................................................................................................. 15 Decision Tree Assisted Controlled Islanding for Preventing Cascading Events Ruisheng Diao; Vijay Vittal; Kai Sun; Sharma Kolluri; Sujit Mandal and Floyd Galvan........ 21 Power System Dynamic Security Classification Using Kohenen Neural Networks Mohammad Reza Aghamohammadi; Fazel Mahdavizadeh and Reza Bagheri ........................ 29 The System Impact of Air Conditioner Under-Voltage Protection Schemes Ning Lu; Bo Yang; Zhenyu Huang and Richard Bravo............................................................ 36 The Study on Optimizing Re-Closing Time to Improve the Transmission Capacity Peng Li; Baohui Zhang; Zhiguo Hao; Zhiqian Bo; Andrew Klimek; Yufei Rao and Yuting Wang ...................................................................................................................... 44 Wide Area Phasor Measurement Systems and Interarea Planning Chair: Michael I. Henderson, New England ISO Sponsor: Power System Planning and Implementation Utility Planning for a Wide Area Measurement System Tony Weekes and Brian Archer ............................................................................................... 50 Joint Coordinated System Planning Study Conceptual Transmission Plans and the Wide Area Phasor Measurement System Potential Applications Dale Osborn; Zheng Zhou and Liangying Hecker ................................................................... 57 Wide Area Monitoring using Common Information Model and Sensor Web Nischal Dahal; Vinoth Mohan; Surya Durbha; Anurag Srivastava; Roger King; Nicolas Younan and Noel Schulz .......................................................................................................... 62

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Phasor Assisted State Estimation for NYS Transmission System -- Implementation & Testing A. Ghassemian and Bruce Fardanesh ....................................................................................... 69 Benchmarking of Planning Models Using Recorded Dynamics Zhenyu Huang; Bo Yang and Dmitry Kosterev ....................................................................... 77 Cascading Failures: Mitigation and Restoration Chair: Pei Zhang, EPRI Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Vulnerability Assessment for Cascading Failures in Electric Power Systems IEEE CAMS Task Force on Cascading Failures IEEE and Zhenyu Huang ............................. 83 Analysis and Control of Major Blackout Events Koji Yamashita; Juan Li; Pei Zhang and Chen-Ching Liu ....................................................... 92 Probabilistic Reliability Assessment for Transmission Planning and Operation Including Cascading Outages Stephen Lee .............................................................................................................................. 96 Modeling, Simulating and Online Setting-Checking for Protective Relay Hongbin Sun; Boming Zhang; Ying Lu; Zhelong Pan and Wenchuan Wu ..............................104 Deployment and Applications of Synchronized Phasor Measurements Chair: Sujit Mandal, Entergy Co-Chair: Richard Schulz, Consultant Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Coordinating Power Oscillation Damping Control Using Wide Area Measurements Emil Johansson; Kjetil Uhlen; Albert B. Leirbukt; Petr Korba; Jan Ove Gjerde and Lars Kristian Vormedal .................................................................................................................... 109 Implementation of CSG's Wide-Area Damping Control System: Overview and Experience Li Peng; Wu Xiaochen; Lu Chao; Shi Jinghai; Hu Jiong; He Jingbo; Zhao Yong and Xu Aidong ...................................................................................................................................... 117 On the Use of df/dt in Power System Emergency Control Hassan Bevrani; Gerard Ledwich and J. J. Ford ....................................................................... 126 Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) Instrumental in Detecting and Managing the Electrical Island Created in the Aftermath of Hurricane Gustav Floyd Galvan; Sujit Mandal and Mark Thomas ....................................................................... 132 Preliminary Synchronized Phasor Data Analysis of Disturbance Events in the US Eastern Interconnection Joe H. Chow; Luigi Vanfretti; Andrew Armenia; Scott Ghiocel; Sanjoy Sarawgi; Navin Bhatt; David Bertagnolli; Meera Shukla; Xiaochuan Luo; Dean Ellis; Dawei Fan; Mahendra Patel; Andrew Hunter; Dave Barber and Gary L. Kobet ......................................... 136

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Power System Dynamic Performance 2 Chair: Anurag K Srivastava, Mississippi State University Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Study of Voltage Collapse Cases of a Large Power System Using Static and Dynamic Approaches Bishnu Sapkota and Vijay Vittal ..............................................................................................144 Dynamic Security Constrained Rescheduling Using Stability Sensitivities by Neural Network as a Preventive Tool Mohammad Reza Aghamohammadi; Ali Maghami and Farzad Dehghani ..............................152 Design of Decentralized Non-Linear Controller for Transient Stability Improvement under Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Fault Conditions: A Comparative Analysis with SSSC T. R. Jyosthna and K. Vaisakh ................................................................................................. 159 Tracking Objective Controller Design for Power System Stability Based on Linearization through Observation Dong Liu; Huaiqing Liao; Zhiqiang Yuan and Hongman Yan .................................................167 Review of Robust Feedback Control Applications in Power Systems Lingling Fan ............................................................................................................................. 171 Automated Parameter Derivation for Power Plant Models Based on Staged Tests Pouyan Pourbeik ....................................................................................................................... 178 Mode Initialization for On-Line Estimation of Power System Electromechanical Modes Ning Zhou; Dan Trudnowski and John Pierre .......................................................................... 187 A Real Shipboard Power System and Its Computer Simulation He Chen; Zongxiang Lu; Jun Ye and Shuangxi Zhou .............................................................. 195 Reliability and Risk Management Chair: Milorad Papic, Idaho Power Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Customer Electricity Purchasing Risk Decision Under Real-Time Pricing Qin Zhang and Xifan Wang ...................................................................................................... 202 Application of Probabilistic Techniques in Asset Management Rodney Fickler; Luiz Cheim and Baldwin Lam ....................................................................... 208 Long Tails from the Distribution of 23 Years of Electrical Disturbance Data David Cornforth ........................................................................................................................ 215 Reliability Analysis of Wide Area Measurement System Based on the Centralized Distributed Model Liu Wen-Xia; Liu Nian; Fan Yong-Feng; Zhang Li-Xin and Zhang Xin ................................. 223

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Track 2: Integrating Wind Energy Wind Power: Managing Uncertainty Chair: Michael Milligan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Estimating Real-Time Balancing Prices in Wind Power Systems Magnus Olsson and Lennart Söder ........................................................................................... 229 The Effect of Wind Profile on Thermal Units Generation Costs Mohammed Albadi and Ehab El-Saadany ................................................................................ 238 Wind Power Day-Ahead Uncertainty Management through Stochastic Unit Commitment Policies Pablo Ruiz; Russ Philbrick and Peter Sauer ............................................................................. 244 Measurements and Estimation for Operations Reliability Chair: Renato Cespedes, KEMA Sponsor: Power System Operations Impact of Recent Blackout - Return of Experiences on Utility Operation IT Infrastructure Damien Tholomier and Jay Giri ............................................................................................... 253 Monitoring and Mitigating the Voltage Collapse Problem in the Natal Network Armando Guzmán; Marcos Donolo; Mani Venkatasubramanian and Franco de Villiers ........ 260 Two-level PMU-based Linear State Estimator Tao Yang; Hongbin Sun and Anjan Bose ................................................................................. 265 Identification of Critical Measurements in the Power System Network Kenedy Greyson and Anant Oonsivilai .................................................................................... 271 Power System Tracking And Dynamic State Estimation Amit Jain and Shivakumar N. R. .............................................................................................. 277 Extracting Steady State Values from Phasor Measurement Unit Data Using FIR and Median Filters Joseph Tate and Thomas J. Overbye ........................................................................................ 285 PSDP Committee Meeting and PSDP Wind Power Paper Session Chair: Zhenyu (Henry) Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Estimation of Wind Farms Working in Presence of Voltage Dips Using the IEEE Std. 1459-2000 Joaquín Montañana-Romeu; Vicente León-Martínez; José Roger-Folch; Emilio Goméz-Lázaro; M. Cañas; Juan Alvaro Fuentes and A. Molina .................................. 293

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Dynamic Simulation of a Hybrid Wind Power System Using RPMSim Eduard Muljadi; Wenzhong Gao; Rick Carson and Vadim Zheglov ....................................... 299 Power Quality Enhancement of Grid-Connected Wind Power Generation System by SMES Hee-yeol Jung; Dae-Jin Park; Hyo-Ryong Seo; Minwon Park and In-Keun Yu ...................... 306 Transient Stability of the Grid with a Wind Power Plant Eduard Muljadi; Tony Nguyen and M. A. Pai .......................................................................... 312 Design of a Damping Controller for a SMES Unit to Suppress Tie-Line Active-Power Fluctuations of a Large-Scale Wind Farm Li Wang; Shiang Shong Chen; Wei-Jen Lee and Zhe Chen ..................................................... 319 Assessment and Enhancement of Grid Fault-Induced Torsional Oscillations for Induction Generator-Based Wind Turbines Babak Badrzadeh; Salman Salman and Kenneth Smith ........................................................... 326 Cluster Analysis of Wind Turbines of Large Wind Farm Yong Ma; John N. Jiang and Thordur Runolfsson ................................................................... 333 Impact of Fixed and Variable Speed Wind Generators on the Transient Stability of a Power System Network Komla Folly and Severus Sheetekela ....................................................................................... 340 Examination of Wind Turbine Generator Models Response to Disturbances Mikhail Borodulin .................................................................................................................... 347 Impact of Large Offshore Wind Farms on Power System Transient Stability Fekadu Shewarega; Istvan Erlich and Jose Rueda ....................................................................355 Renewable Power Generation Chair: Mohamed A. H. El-Sayed, University of Trinidad and Tobago Co-Chair: Wenzhong Gao, Tennessee Technological University Sponsor: Energy Development and Power Generation Dynamic Modeling and Control of Doubly Fed Induction Generators Driven by Wind Turbines Wei Qiao ................................................................................................................................... 363 A Methodology for the Identification of the Sustainable Wind Potential. The Portuguese Case Study Teresa Simões; Paulo Costa and Ana Estanqueiro ................................................................... 371 Development of Low Voltage Ride-Through Control Strategy for Wind Power Generation Using Real Time Digital Simulator Wenzhong Gao; Ge Wang and Jiaxin Ning .............................................................................. 378 Long-Term Planning and the Sustainable Power System: A Focus on Flexibility Needs and Network Reliability Nadia Maizi; Vincent Mazauric; Edi Assoumou and Mathilde Drouineau .............................. 384

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Static Synchronous Generators for Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Qing-Chang Zhong and George Weiss .....................................................................................390 Modeling the Combination of UPQC and Photovoltaic Arrays with Multi-Input Single-Output DC-DC Converter Masoud Davari; Sayyed Mahdi Ale-Emran; Hesam Yazdanpanahi and Gevorg B. Gharehpetian .................................................................................................... 396 Wind Farm and Wake Effect Modeling for Simulation of a Studied Power System Xinyan Zhang and Weiqing Wang ........................................................................................... 403 Short Term Forecasting in Operations Chair: Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University Sponsor: Power System Operations Potential Benefits of a Dedicated Probabilistic Rapid Ramp Event Forecast Tool Cameron Potter; Eric Grimit and Bart Nijssen ......................................................................... 409 Massive Data Acquisition for the Short Term Wind Power Forecasting in a Large Grid: The Hydro-Québec SAGIPE System Experience Vincent Balvet; Jacques Bourret and Jean-Emmanuel Maubois .............................................. 414 One Day Ahead Wind Speed Forecasting Using Wavelets Ahmad Khan and Mohammed Shahidehpour ........................................................................... 421 Impact of Load Forecast Uncertainty on LMP Rui Bo and Fangxing Li ........................................................................................................... 426 An Aggregate Model Applied To The Short-Term Bus Load Forecasting Problem Ricardo Salgado; Rosangela Ballini and Takaaki Ohishi ......................................................... 432 Wind Power: Analyzing System Impacts Chair: Michael Milligan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Optimal Firm Wind Capacity Allocation to Power Systems With Security Constraints Daniel Burke and Mark O'Malley ............................................................................................. 440 The Irish "All Island Grid Study" - Methodological Approaches and Outcomes Jens Boemer and Diane Broad .................................................................................................. 449 Regulation Requirements with High Wind Generation Penetration in the ERCOT Market Reigh Walling; Lavelle Freeman and Warren Lasher .............................................................. 454 Pitfalls of Modeling Wind Power Using Markov Chains Kevin Brokish and James Kirtley ............................................................................................. 461

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Track 3: Emerging Software Needs for the Restructured Grid Distribution System Trends - Analytical Methods Chair: Tom McDermott, EnerNex Corporation Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Roadmap for the IEEE PES Test Feeders Roger Dugan; W Kersting; S. Carneiro, Jr.; R. Arritt and T. McDermott ................................ 467 The Modeling and Application of Step Voltage Regulators Bill Kersting ............................................................................................................................. 471 Distribution Power Flow for Smart Grid Technologies Kevin Schneider; David Chassin; Y. Chen and Jason Fuller .................................................... 479 Distribution System State Estimation using AMI Data Mesut Baran and T.E. McDermott ........................................................................................... 486 Distribution System Trends - Data Integration Chair: Tom McDermott, EnerNex Corporation Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Real-time Distribution System Analysis - Integral Part of DMS Ilya Roytelman and Volker Landenberger ................................................................................ 489 Real-Time Power Electric System Modeling, Assessment and Reliability Prediction Danling Cheng; Yishan Liang; Dan Zhu and Robert P. Broadwater ........................................ 495 Transforming Traditional Geographic Information System to Support Smart Distribution Systems Parag Parikh and Terry Nielsen ................................................................................................501 Enterprise Integration of Demand Response and Meter Data Chair: Ali Vojdani, UISOL Sponsor: Power System Operations Enterprise Integration of Demand Response and Meter Data Ali Vojdani ............................................................................................................................... 505 Lesson Learned from Real-Life Implementation of Demand Response Management Peter Langbein .......................................................................................................................... 506 Communication Standards for Small Demand Resources H. Johnson ................................................................................................................................ 507 Integrating Advanced Metering Data into the Enterprise Chris King ................................................................................................................................ 510

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Experience of Great River Energy with Meter Data Management Jim Jones ..................................................................................................................................511 Modeling of Demand Response Contracts with Operational Reliability Indices in Distribution Management System Jayant Kumar ............................................................................................................................ 512 High Performance Computing Applications in Power Systems Chair: Joseph (Zeb) Tate, University of Toronto Co-Chair: Zhenyu (Henry) Huang, Pacific Northwest Labs Sponsor: Power System Operations Fast Parallelized Algorithms for On-Line Extended-Term Dynamic Cascading Analysis Siddhartha Khaitan; Chuan Fu and James McCalley ................................................................ 513 FPGA Hardware Results for Power System Computation Chika Nwankpa; Jeremy Johnson; Prawat Nagvajara; Timothy Chagnon and Petya Vachranukunkiet ...................................................................................................... 520 Dynamic State Estimation Utilizing High Performance Computing Methods Kevin Schneider; Zhenyu Huang; Bo Yang; Matt Hauer and Y. Nieplocha ............................ 523 Practical Experiences on High Performance Power System Applications Implementation Xing Wang ................................................................................................................................ 529 A Multi-Agent Based Distributed Computing Platform for New Generation of EMS Boming Zhang; Chuanlin Zhao and Wenchuan Wu ................................................................. 532 Intelligent Systems Chair: Manisa Pipattanasomporn, Virginia Tech Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics A Fuzzy Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization for Long-Term Optimal Scheduling of Cascaded Hydropower Station Wenping Chang; Xianjue Luo and Hai Yu ............................................................................... 539 Capacity Withholding in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets: An Agent-Based Test Bed Study Hongyan Li and Leigh Tesfatsion ............................................................................................ 544 A Learnable Kernel Machine for Short-Term Load Forecasting Lin Zhang; Guang Dai; Yijia Cao; Guixiang Zhai and Zhaoyan Liu ....................................... 555 A Zonal Congestion Management Using PSO and Real Coded Genetic Algorithm Erukulla Muneender and Vinod Kumar D.M. .......................................................................... 561 An Angle-Based PSO Approach For Reactive Power Management Problem Kianoosh Pooya and Hamid Lesani .......................................................................................... 567

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CIM Status Update Chair: Ed Dobrowolski, NERC Sponsor: Power System Operations CIM Documentation Update Edward Dobrowolski ................................................................................................................ 573 Justifying the CIM Terrence Saxton ........................................................................................................................ 574 Specifying the Use of CIM in an EMS Project Jay Britton ................................................................................................................................ 575 CIM Update Status Kendall Demaree ...................................................................................................................... 576 CIMug Interaction with IEC Randy Rhodes ........................................................................................................................... 577 CIM Model Management Kurt Hunter ............................................................................................................................... 578 Time-Based Management of Large Scale Network Models Curtis Crews ............................................................................................................................. 579 Operations Scheduling and Dispatch Chair: Jagjit Singh, OATI Sponsor: Power System Operations A Predictive Control Approach for Long Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Monica Zambelli and Secundino Soares .................................................................................. 581 Security Coordinated Maintenance Scheduling in Deregulation Based on Genco Contribution to Unserved Energy Hemantkumar Barot and Kankar Bhattacharya ........................................................................ 589 Secant Method Combined with PSO for Economic Dispatch with Prohibited Operating Zones Karri Chandram; Nallamothu Subrahmanyam and Maheswarapu Sydulu ...............................590 Generation Scheduling for a Price Taker Genco in Competitive Power Markets Govinda Shrestha and Qiao Songbo ......................................................................................... 597 Fuzzy Inference Systems Approach for Long Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Bruno Monte and Secundino Soares ......................................................................................... 603

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Track 4: Control System Robustness Today and in the Future Network Solutions Using FACTS Chair: Brian Johnson, University of Idaho Sponsor: Transmission and Distribution Introduction to FACTS Controllers Rajiv Varma .............................................................................................................................. 610 Power System Problems Solved by FACTS Devices Heinz Tyll and Frank Schettler ................................................................................................. 616 How FACTS Controllers Benefit AC Transmission Systems - Phases of Power System Studies John Paserba ............................................................................................................................. 621 Planning Issues for FACTS Michael Henderson ................................................................................................................... 625 Planning HVDC and FACTS in New England Michael Henderson; David Bertagnolli and Donald Ramey ....................................................629 Real-Time Stability Assessment in Modern Power System Control Centers Panel Chair: Savu C. Savulescu, ECIQS Sponsor: Power System Operations Real-Time Transient Security Assessment in Australia at NEMMCO Stephen Boroczky and Ellis Gentle .......................................................................................... 632 What is the Likely Future of Real-Time Transient Stability? Damien Ernst; Louis Wehenkel and Mania Pavella ................................................................. 638 Real-Time Stability Assessment in the Control Centers of the ISO of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a National Dispatching System in North Africa Edwin Lerch; Olaf Ruhle and Dusko Vickovic ........................................................................ 641 Overview of Key Stability Concepts Applied for Real-Time Operations Savu Savulescu ......................................................................................................................... 646 LIPA Implementation of Real-Time Stability Monitoring in a CIM Compliant Environment Loris Arnold and Janos Hajagos ............................................................................................... 652

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Advanced Controls for Distribution Systems Chair: Brian Johnson, University of Idaho Sponsor: Transmission and Distribution Volt/var Management--An Essential "SMART" Function E. Tom Jauch ............................................................................................................................ 658 Demonstrative Study of Control System for Distribution System with Distributed Generation Hiroyuki Hatta; Satoshi Uemura and Hiromu Kobayashi ........................................................ 665 An Effective Voltage Control Scheme for Distribution Systems by Means of Multi-Agents Yoshifumi Zoka; Naoto Yorino; Nobuaki Toga and Hiroaki Sugihara .................................... 671 On-Line Automatic Switching of Consumers' Connections for Improved Performance of A Distribution Feeder Olawale Popoola; Adisa Jimoh and Dan Nicolae ..................................................................... 679 Improving the Dynamic Performance of Wind Farms With STATCOM Aditya Jayam and Badrul Chowdhury ...................................................................................... 686 A Wavelet Packet Transform-based Approach for Evaluating the Performance of a Wind Farm Subject to Voltage Sag according to IEEE Standard 1459-2000 Walid Morsi and Mohamed El-Hawary .................................................................................... 694 Advances in Electric Machines & Drives Chair: Professor Osama Mohammed, Florida International University Sponsor: Electric Machinery Parameter Optimization for Sensorless Position and Speed Control of Permanent Magnet Motor at Low Speed using Genetic Algorithm Ahmad Khan and Osama Mohammed ...................................................................................... 701 Integrating Electrical and Aerodynamic Characteristics for DFIG Speed Control Study Shuhui Li; Tim Haskew and Shukul Mazari ............................................................................. 706 Nonlinear Control of Wind Power Generation Systems Yi Guo; John Jiang and Choon Yik Tang ................................................................................. 714 On-Line Synchronous Machine Parameter Extraction from Small Signal-Injection Techniques Jing Huang and Jing Huang ...................................................................................................... 721

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Techniques and Technology for a Secure Grid Chair: Siri Varadan, KEMA Sponsor: Power System Planning and Implementation Assessing Vulnerability to Cascading Outages Navin Bhatt; Sanjoy Sarawgi; Rob O'Keefe; Patrick Duggan; Matt Koenig; Margaret Leschuk; Stephen Lee; Kai Sun; Sharma Kolluri; Sujit Mandal; Maryclaire Peterson; Daniel Brotzman; Steven Hedden; Eugene Litvinov; Slava Maslennikov; Xiaochuan Luo; Edvina Uzu .................................................................... 722 Proposition for a Novel Locational Reliability Index in Power Systems Hemantkumar Barot and Kankar Bhattacharya ........................................................................ 731 The Concept of Power Unit Zone in Power System Reliability Evaluation Including Protection System Failures Kai Jiang and Chanan Singh ..................................................................................................... 738 Coordinated Reactive Power Planning against Power System Voltage Instability Venkat Krishnan; Haifeng Liu and James McCalley................................................................ 748 VFT – A Smart Transmission Technology That Is Compatible With the Existing and Future Grid Paul Marken; John Marczewski; Robert D'Aquila; Paul Hassink; Jim Roedel and Richard Bodo ..................................................................................................................... 756 Transmission Planning for a Robust Grid Chair: Fran Li, University of Tennessee Sponsor: Power System Planning and Implementation Transmission Planning Risk Indices - What now? Siri Varadan and Jasper van Casteren ....................................................................................... 763 Utility Application Experience of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Method Pei Zhang; Liang Min; Liana Hopkins; Bruce Fardanesh; Prakash Patro; Jim Useldinger; Mark Graham and Dillwyn Ramsay ............................................................... 770 A Method of Evaluating Transmission Network Expansion Plan Considering Security Constraints and Supply Reliability Index Ken Furusawa; Kenji Okada and Hiroshi Asano ...................................................................... 777 Development of a Support Tool to Level Transmission Equipment Replacements over Long Term Masaki Nagata; Arisa Takehara and Ikuo Kurihara.................................................................. 783 Considerations on the Use of HVDC for CREZ Transmission Nelson Bacalao; Anthony Wayne Galli; Michael Hutson and Ramon Nadira ......................... 790 An Approach to Analyze and Evaluate Transmission Cost Impacts for New Generation Proposals Jeff Smith; Bhaskar Ray; Kyung Soo Kook and Pouyan Pourbeik ..........................................797

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Track 5: The Smart Grid and the Internet Cyber-Physical System Security - Assessment Chair: Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Complexities of Information Security in Cyber-Physical Power Systems Bruce McMillin ........................................................................................................................ 803 Supporting Cyber Risk Assessment of Power Control Systems with Experimental Data Giovanna Dondossola; Fabrizio Garrone and Judit Szanto ...................................................... 805 Cybersecurity of SCADA Systems: Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation Chen-Ching Liu; Chee Wooi Ten and Manimaran Govindarasu .............................................. 808 Reliability Impacts from Cyber Attack on Electric Power Systems Jason Stamp; Annie McIntyre and Bryan Ricardson ................................................................ 811 Research Frontiers for the Smart Grid: University-Industry Partnership Chair: Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University Sponsor: Power Engineering Education Substation Automation Research Frontiers Mladen Kezunovic .................................................................................................................... 819 Wide-Area Monitoring and Control Algorithms for Large Power Systems Using Synchrophasors Mani Venkatasubramanian; Xunning Yue; Guoping Liu; Michael Sherwood and Qiang Zhang ...................................................................................................................... 821 Transmission System Visualization for the SmartGrid Thomas Overbye....................................................................................................................... 826 Industry Perspectives on University Research Programs Jay Giri ..................................................................................................................................... 828 Department of Energy/University Research: A Smart Partnership for a Smart Grid Philip Overholt ......................................................................................................................... 829 Cyber-Physical System Security - Methods Chair: Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Enterprise Architecture Models for Cyber Security Analysis Mathias Ekstedt and Teodor Sommestad .................................................................................. 832

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Modeling Cyber and Physical Interdependencies – Application in ICT and Power Grids Nouredine Hadjsaid; Carolina Tranchita; Benoit Rozel; Maria-Georgetta Viziteu and Raphael Caire ..................................................................................................................... 838 Analyzing NASPInet Data Flows Ragib Hasan; Rakesh Bobba and Himanshu Khurana .............................................................. 844 Cyber Security of the Electric Power Grid Jeff Dagle .................................................................................................................................. 850 Demand Response at ISOs under Smart Grid Chair: Farrouk Rahimi, OATI Sponsor: Power System Operations Demand Response under the SmartGrid Paradigm Farrokh Rahimi ......................................................................................................................... 852 Overview of Demand Response at Different ISO/RTOs Farrokh Rahimi ......................................................................................................................... 853 PG&E Perspective on Demand Response under the Smart Grid Paradigm Kenneth Abreu .......................................................................................................................... 855 Integrating Demand Response into Wholesale Electricity Markets Elizabeth Reid; Spence Gerber and Parviz Adib ...................................................................... 857 Effective Business Models for Demand Response under the SmartGrid Paradigm Arthur Vos ................................................................................................................................ 858 Smart Grid of the Future with Large Scale DR/DER Penetration Ali Ipakchi ................................................................................................................................ 859 Distribution System Planning and Management Chair: Robert Fletcher, Snohomish County PUD Sponsor: Power System Planning and Implementation Supervisory Control and Energy Management of an Inverter-based Modular Smart Grid Alaa Mohd; Egon Ortjohann; Worpong Sinsukthavorn; Max Lingemann; Nedzad Hamsic and Danny Morton.......................................................................................... 860 The Distributed Generator Placement and Sizing Test Suite and Analysis Tool Adam Berry; David Cornforth and Glenn Platt ........................................................................ 866 Opportunities for Active DER Management in Deferral of Distribution System Reinforcements Edwin Haesen; Arturo Alarcon-Rodriguez; Johan Driesen; Ronnie Belmans and Graham Ault ...................................................................................................................... 875 A Novel Approach to Disco Planning in Electricity Markets: Mathematical Model Ayed Algarni and Kankar Bhattacharya ................................................................................... 883

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Assessing the Value of Distribution Infrastructure Replacement Zoilo Roldan; Shan (Sam) Chien and Roger Lee ..................................................................... 888 Track 6: Non Track Session Analytical Methods 1 Chair: Chan-Nan Lu, National Sun Yat-Sen University Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to Improve Generalization Ability of Load Model Parameters Jian Ma; ZhaoYang Dong and Pei Zhang ................................................................................. 895 A Reduced-Order Estimator with Prescribed Degree of Stability for Two-Area LFC System in a Deregulated Environment Elyas Rakhshani and Javad Sadeh ............................................................................................903 Estimation Method of Load Type and Capacity by Using Starting Load Characteristics Naoki Gibo; Toshiaki Kikuma; Kiyoshi Takenaka; Ryousuke Hatano and Nobuyuki Yamamoto ......................................................................................................... 911 Robust Three Phase Fast Decoupled Power Flow Pradeep Bijwe; Abhijith B. and G. Kasi Viswanadha Raju ...................................................... 917 Co-optimizing Energy and Ancillary-Service Markets: Lessons Learned Chair: Khai Lee, PCI Sponsor: Power System Operations Co-Optimizing Energy and Ancillary Services in RTO Markets: Field Experience and Lessons Learned Khai Le ..................................................................................................................................... 922 Experience with Implementing Simultaneous Co-Optimization in the Midwest ISO Energy and Operating Reserve Markets Matthew Tackett ....................................................................................................................... 924 FirstEnergy's Experience with Operating Genco Assets in New MISO Ancillary-Service Market Ronald Palcic and Renee Tumbleson .......................................................................................926 Using Co-Optimization to Clear Energy and Ancillary Services in MRTU Market Mark Rothleder ......................................................................................................................... 927 Experience with Bidding Ancillary Services in ERCOT: A Modeler's Perspective Charles Noble ........................................................................................................................... 929 Experience with Ancillary Services in ISO New England's LMP Markets Eugene Litvinov; Ronald Coutu and Tongxin Zheng ............................................................... 931

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Developments in Power System Operations Chair: Edward Dobrowolski, NERC Sponsor: Power System Operations Unified Implementation Framework for Calculation and Allocation of Expected Energy Dingguo Chen; Brian Johnson and Mike York ......................................................................... 933 A Generic Operations Framework for Discos in Retail Electricity Markets Ayed Algarni and Kankar Bhattacharya ................................................................................... 943 A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Approach to Support the Operation of Large Electric Power Systems Emanuele Ciapessoni; Diego Cirio; Stefano Massucco; Andrea Pitto and Federico Silvestro .............................................................................................................. 944 The Problem of Initiating Controlled Islanding of a Large Interconnected Power System Solved as a Pareto Optimization Vijay Vittal and Gerald Heydt .................................................................................................. 952 An Immune System Approach for Power System Automation and Self Healing Rabie Belkacemi and Ali Feliachi ............................................................................................959 Nomograms for Assistance in Voltage Security Visualization Hector Sarmiento; Gabriela Pampin; Raul Barajas; Rafael Castellanos; Gustavo Villa and Manuel Mirabal .......................................................................................... 966 Electric Machinery & Applications Chair: Professor Osama Mohammed, Florida International University Sponsor: Electric Machinery The Technique of Clustering Analysis of Partial Discharge. Oleg Agamalov ......................................................................................................................... 972 Inspection Enhancement of Wind Turbine Blades Using Novel Signal-Processing Approaches Chin-Shun Tsai; Shyh-Jier Huang and Cheng-Tao Hsieh ........................................................981 On Line Synchronous Generator Parameters Estimation Based on Applying Small Disturbance on Excitation System Using ANN Mehdi Rahimpour; Mohammad Ali Talebi; Heydar Ali Shayanfar and Mohammad Reza Azad Hosseini ....................................................................................... 988 A New, Ultra Low Cost Power Quality and Energy Measurement Technology - The Future of Power Quality Monitoring Alex McEachern and Andreas Eberhard .................................................................................. 992

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FACTS Chair: Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Simplified Dynamic Model of a Voltage-Sourced Converter with Modular Multilevel Converter Design Simon Teeuwsen....................................................................................................................... 996 Dynamic Performance of the New 400 kV Storebaelt HVDC Project Simon Teeuwsen; Carsten Rasmussen and Hans Abildgaard ...................................................1002 Application of a HVDC Link to Promote Stability by Sharing Dynamic Reserve Power after Generation Deficiencies Shaukat Sadullah and Ahmed Ebrahim ....................................................................................1009 Design of Integrative Fuzzy Logic Damping Controller of VSC-HVDC Sheng Li; Jianhua Zhang; Guohua Zhang; Jingfu Shang; Mingxia Zhou and Yinhui Li ......... 1019 Simulation Study of the CIGRE HVDC Benchmark Model with the WSCC Nine-bus Power System Network Kala Meah and A.H.M. Sadrul Ula .......................................................................................... 1025 Optimal Placement and Signal Selection for Wide-Area Controlled UPFCs for Damping Power System Oscillations Mahyar Zarghami and Mariesa Crow ....................................................................................... 1030 Optimal Placement of FACTS Devices for Multi-Objective Voltage Stability Problem Rabah Benabid; Mohamed Boudour and M. A. Abido ............................................................. 1036 Simulation Recurrence of a Realistic DC Line Fault Based on RTDS and Its Simulation Reliability Analysis Xudong Jia; Gengyin Li; Chengyong Zhao and Xiangning Xiao ............................................. 1047 ICC Poster Session Chair: TBD, tbd Sponsor: Insulated Conductors Experiences with Continuous Condition Monitoring of In-Service MV Cable Connections Peter van der Wielen and E. Fred Steennis ...............................................................................1052 Operations Methods and Techniques Chair: Renato Cespedes, KEMA Sponsor: Power System Operations Beneficial Effects on THD Values in Onshore Systems by a Natural Filter Arm Offshore Feeder Ahmed Hegazy ......................................................................................................................... 1060

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Model Merging For The Energy Management System for the China Southern Grid Edward H. Chan; Peng Li and Ruipeng Zhang ......................................................................... 1069 NERC IDC: Managing Congestion in the North American Eastern Interconnection Nelson Muller; Guillermo Irisarri; Jose Medina; Carlos Gonzalez-Perez; Mohamad Yassin; Jim Latimer; Farrokh Albuyeh and Sasan Mokhtari ................................... 1073 A Game-Theoretic Study of the Strategic Interaction between Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning Simon Ng; Jin Zhong and C. W. Lee ........................................................................................ 1081 Switching Over-Voltages at the Disconnection of the High Voltage Shunt Reactors in the Romanian Power System Paul Sroica; Ion Merfu; Mihail Stroica; Marius Merfu and Aurel Campeanu .......................... 1091 High Frequency Deviations within the European Power Systems: Origins and Proposals for Improvement Tobias Weissbach and Ernst Welfonder ................................................................................... 1097 Instability Criterion to Eliminate the Non-Detection Zone of the Sandia Frequency Shift Method Hatem Zeineldin and Scott Kennedy ........................................................................................ 1103 A Tariff for Reactive Power Christopher Tufon; Alan Isemonger; Brendan Kirby; John Kueck and Fran Li ....................... 1108 Development of ANT Algorithm For Load Flow Analysis Yogendra Kumar; Kaustubh Dwivedi and Ganga Agnihotri .................................................... 1115 A Novel Discrete Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) of Optimal Shunt Power Filter Adel Sharaf and Adel Elgammal .............................................................................................. 1120 Voltage Profile Evaluation of Power Systems with Coordinated SVC Devices Jizhong Zhu; Kwok Cheung; Davis Hwang and Ali Sadjadpour ..............................................1127 Power System Planning and Implementation Poster Session Chair: M. L. Chan, Quanta Technology Sponsor: Power System Planning and Implementation Automatic Network Topology Generator for Transmission Planning ADrian Inda; Gustavo Bravo and Federico Flores ................................................................... 1134 Study on the Electromagnetic Environment of 1000 kV AC Double-Circuit Transmission Lines in China Daochun Huang; Jiangjun Ruan and Feng Huo ........................................................................ 1143 A Modeling Paradigm for Extending Well-Being Analysis to a Composite Bilateral Contracts Market Ajit K Verma and Vijay Venu V. ............................................................................................. 1150

PSCE 2009

Autonomous Control of Energy Storage Devices for Enhancing Power System Stability Chung-Neng Huang .................................................................................................................. 1156 Neural Network Based Approach for Short-Term Load Forecasting Mohamed Awad; Zainab H. Osman and Tawfik K. Mahmoud ................................................1162 Backward Search Approach to Incorporate Excess Stream Inflows in SDP Based Reservoir Scheduling of Hydropower Plants Deependra Jha; Naoto Yorino; Yoshifumi Zoka; Yutaka Sasaki; Hayashi Yuki; Kazunoni Iwata and Ryuju Oe ..................................................................................................1170 Special Protection Systems in Ontario Pedro Rebellon ......................................................................................................................... 1176 A Nonlinear Model for the Long-Term Hydro-Thermal Generation Scheduling Problem Over Multiple Areas with Transmission Constraints Leonardo Martins; Secundino Soares and Anibal Azevedo ..................................................... 1182 Aggregation of Multiple Induction Motors using MATLAB-based Software Package Arif Karakas; Fangxing Li and Sarina Adhikari ....................................................................... 1189 Reliability Evaluation of Composite Power Systems Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms: Some Conceptual and Simulation Studies Lingfeng Wang and Chanan Singh ........................................................................................... 1195 Improving Performance of NN Based Electricity Price Forecasting Using Sensitivity Analysis Paras Mandal; Anurag Srivastava and Michael Negnevitsky ................................................... 1202 Clustering based Short Term Load Forecasting using Artificial Neural Network Amit Jain and B. Satish ............................................................................................................ 1210 Short and Medium Term Operation Planning in Electric Power Systems Roberto Navarro ....................................................................................................................... 1217 Power Systems Relaying Chair: Miram Sanders, AMETEK Power Instruments Sponsor: Power System Relaying An Optimised Fault Classification Technique Based on Support-Vector-Machines Omar Youssef ........................................................................................................................... 1225 Recent Developments in State Estimation with Phasor Measurements Arun Phadke; James Thorp; Reynaldo Nuqui and Ming Zhou ................................................. 1233 Summary of the “Guide for the Protection of Shunt Reactors” IEEE Std. C37.109-2006 Kevin Stephan; Pratap Mysore; John Appleyard; Munnu Bajpai; Simon Chano; Arvind Chaudhary; Roger Hedding; Charles Henville; Dean Miller; Vittal Rebbapragada and James Stephens .................................................................................................................. 1240

PSCE 2009

Optimal Overcurrent Relays Coordination using Particle-Swarm-Optimization Algorithm Mohamad Reza Asadi and Shahram Montaser Kouhsari .........................................................1244 A Fault Location Algorithm Using Estimated Local Source Impedance Young-Jin Kwon; Dong-Gyu Lee and Su-Hwan Kim .............................................................. 1251 Distance Relays Ideal Tripping Characteristic in Presence of Directly Connected Load to Transmission Lines Hossein Shateri and Sadegh Jamali .......................................................................................... 1256 Adaptive Distance Relaying Scheme in Presence of UPFC using WAMS K. Seethalekshmi; Sri Niwas Singh and Suresh Srivastava ...................................................... 1262 An Asymmetrical Fault Location Method Based on Communication System in Distribution Network with DGs Jiao Du; Yuping Lu; Guofang Zhu and Xia Lin ....................................................................... 1268 DWT and Bayesian Technique for Enhancing Earth Fault Protection in MV Networks Nagy Elkalashy; Matti Lehtonen and Naser Tarhuni ............................................................... 1274 Experimental Evaluation of Power Differential Relay for Transmission Line Protection Hatem Darwish; Abdel-Maksoud Taalab; Eman Ahmed and Om Malik .................................1279 Measured Impedance by Distance Relay for Inter Phase Faults in Presence of SSSC Sadegh Jamali; Ahad Kazemi and Hossein Shateri .................................................................. 1286 Using Fault Current Limiter to Minimize Effect of Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor on Over Reach Problem of Distance Protection Seyed Ali Akbar Shahriari; Mohamad Hoasseini Abardeh; Ali Yazdian Varjani and Mostafa Mohamadian ........................................................................................................ 1292 PMU Simulation and Application for Power System Stability Monitoring Harmeet Kang; Branislav Cvorovic; Chris Mycock; Damien Tholomier and Ruikun Mai ........................................................................................................................ 1298 Adaptive Protection of Transmission Lines During Wide Area Disturbances Damien Tholomier and Alexander Apostolov .......................................................................... 1305 Analysis of Wide Area Events – Present and Future Alexander Apostolov and Benton Vandiver ............................................................................. 1312 Measured Impedance by Distance Relay Elements Applied on a Distribution Feeder in a Single Phase to Ground Fault Hossein Shateri and Sadegh Jamali ..........................................................................................1319 Effect of Current Sensor Technology on Distance Protection Ferry Viawan; Jianping Wang; Zhao Wang and Winnary-Ying Yang ..................................... 1326 ANN-Based Protection System for Controllable Series-Compensated Transmission Lines Ahmed Hosny and Mohammed Safiuddin ................................................................................ 1333

PSCE 2009

Measured Impedance by Distance Relay with Positive Sequence Voltage Memory in Presence of TCSC Ahad Kazemi; Sadegh Jamali and Hossein Shateri .................................................................. 1339 PSACE Forum 1 Chair: Kevin Schneider, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization Based Reliable Algorithm to Overcome the Limitations of Conventional Power Flow Methods Parimal Acharjee and Swapan Goswami .................................................................................. 1345 Coordinated Dynamic Voltage Stabilization based on Model Predictive Control Licheng Jin and Ratnesh Kumar ............................................................................................... 1352 Utilization of Analytical Hierarchy Process in Contingency Ranking Mehrdad Abedi; Mehdi Ehsan; Zeinab Ghofrani Jahromi and Mohsen Masjed Jamei ............ 1360 Principal Hankel Component Algorithm (PHCA) for Power System Identification Bai Yan; Xiaorong Xie and Qirong Jiang ................................................................................. 1366 Dynamic Self-Scheduling of a Fuel and Emission Constrained Power Producer Under Uncertainties S. Jalal Kazempour; Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam; Mahmoud-Reza Haghifam and Gholam-Reza Yousefi .............................................................................................................. 1371 Load Forecasting via Manifold Regularization Lin Zhang; Guang Dai; Guixiang Zhai; Yijia Cao and Zhaoyan Liu ....................................... 1381 Application of the HHI in a Probabilistic Framework for a Parametric Approach to Determine Possible Market Power Mandhir Sahni; H.W. Corley and Bei Gou ............................................................................... 1387 ATC Enhancement Using Emergency Demand Response Program Ebrahim Shayesteh; Ashkan Yousefi; Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam and Mohammad Kazem Sheikh-EL-Eslami ........................................................................................................ 1395 Management and Analysis of Data from Hydroelectric Plants Ieda Hidalgo; Secundino Soares; Darrell Fontane and Marcelo Cicogna ................................. 1402 Simple Method for Computing Power Systems Maximum Loading Conditions Cassio Fujisawa and Carlos Castro ........................................................................................... 1408 General Formulation of Transfer Function Identification for Power System Based on WAMS Jun Qi; Quanyuan Jiang and Yijia Cao ..................................................................................... 1414 Multiple Scale Identification of Power System Oscillations Using an Improved Hilbert-Huang Transform Xingzhi Wang and Zheng Yan .................................................................................................1420

PSCE 2009

Forecasting Locational Marginal Pricing in Deregulated Power Markets Ittiphong Leevongwat and Parviz Rastgoufard ......................................................................... 1426 PSC Poster Session Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications An Open Source Grid Based Render Farm for Blender 3D Muhammad Zeeshan Patoli; Michael Gkion; Abdullah Al-Barakati; Wei Zhang; Paul Newbury and Martin White ..............................................................................................1435 PSIM Posters Chair: Rejean Arseneau, NRC Canada Sponsor: Power System Instrumentation and Measurements Modern State Estimation Methods in Power Systems Freek Baalbergen; Madeleine Gibescu and Lou van der Sluis .................................................1441 Dynamic Characteristic Analysis of Power System Low Frequency Oscillation Using Hilbert-Huang Transform Song Han; Bin Sun; Cheng Wu and Li-quan He ...................................................................... 1447 PPMU-Based Line and Transformer Parameter Estimation Carlos Borda; Andres Olarte and Hernando Diaz ..................................................................... 1453 Smart Grid Control Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications Two-Step Solution to Optimal Load Shedding in a Micro-Grid Pengwei Du and J. K. Nelson ................................................................................................... 1461 Building a Smarter Smart Grid Through Better Renewable Energy Information Cameron Potter; Allison Archambault and Kenneth Westrick .................................................1470 Smart Grid Design for Efficient and Flexible Power Networks Operation and Control James Momoh ........................................................................................................................... 1475 Stationary Battery Poster Session Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Stationary Battery Coordinated Charging of Multiple Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles in Residential Distribution Grids Kristien Clement; Edwin Haesen and Johan Driesen ............................................................... 1483

PSCE 2009

Surge Protective Devices Poster Session Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Surge Protective Devices Palm Kernel Oil Cake as an Alternative to Earth Resistance-Reducing Agent George Eduful and Joseph Ekow Cole .....................................................................................1490 Fault Current Limiter – R&D Status and Testing Issues Ndeye Khady Fall and Brian Marchionini ................................................................................ 1494 Switchgear Committee Poster Session Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Switchgear Use Vibration Monitoring to Identify Circuit Breakers for Condition Assessment Zhenyuan Wang ........................................................................................................................ 1498 Computer Aided Optimized Design, Simulation and Comparison of Synthetic Test Circuits For 420 kV Rating Circuit Breakers Jitendra Jamnani and Smita Kanitkar .......................................................................................1503 Evaluation of AC Contactor's Dynamic Characteristics Using Fuzzy Techniques Xiuping Su; Hexu Sun; Jie Li and Yan Dong ........................................................................... 1508 Multi-Objective Evaluation for Distribution Network Reconstruction Basing on Hierarchical Data Envelopment Analysis Liu Wen-Xia; Zhang Li-Xin; Zhang Jian-Hua and Fan Yong-Feng ......................................... 1514 T&D Poster Session Chair: Prof. Joydeep Mitra, Michigan State University Sponsor: Transmission and Distribution The Implementation of Fuzzy Adaptive PI Controller in VSC-HVDC Systems Haifeng Liang; Gengyin Li; Ming Zhou and Chengyong Zhao ...............................................1520 Condition Based Failure Rate Modeling for Electric Network Components Jiuping Pan; Zhenyuan Wang and David Lubkeman................................................................1525 Three-Phase Short-Circuit Fault on the Lower Frequency Bus of Cycloconverter in FFTS Teng Yufei and Wang Xifan ..................................................................................................... 1531 The Calculation of Main Circuit Steady State Parameters for HVDC System Feng Wang and Jing Zhang ......................................................................................................1536 Determination of VFTO Waveform in GIS According to Simplified Structure of GIS Bus and Circuit Parameters Yang Yu; Wang Zanji and Shao Chong ................................................................................... 1541

PSCE 2009

High Impedance Fault Detection in EHV Series Compensated Lines Using The Wavelet Transform El Sayed Tag Eldin; Doaa Khalil Ibrahim; Essam Aboul-Zahab and Saber Mohamed Saleh ......................................................................................................................................... 1550 Comparison of Windowed Fourier Transform and Dynamic Phasors for Power Quality Analysis Luis Collazo and Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo .................................................................................. 1560 Effective Length of a Single Long Horizontal Ground Conductor Buried in Homogeneous Soil Wan Fatinhamamah Wan Ahmad; David W. P. Thomas; Christos Christopoulos; Say Tat Chong; Jasronita Jasni; Mohd. Zainal A. Ab Kadir and Hashim Hizam .....................1565 Wind Farms Access to the Romanian Transport System N. Golovanov, G.C. Lazaroiu, M.A. Manole, M. Roscia, and D. Zaninelli ................................................................................................................... .............1570 A Reliability Improvement Roadmap Based on a Predictive Model and Extrapolation Technique Julio Romero Aguero; Richard Brown; John Spare; Edmund Phillips; Le Xu and Jia Wang ............................................................................................................................ 1576 Detection and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using S-Transform and Probabilistic Neural Network Sukumar Mishra ....................................................................................................................... 1584 Analysis and Control of Sustainable Energy Systems Chair: Wenzhong Gao, Tennessee Technological University Sponsor: Energy Development and Power Generation A Load Flow Based Method for Optimal Location of Dispersed Generation Units Mahmood Sadeghi and Ahad Kazemi ......................................................................................1585 Market Influence on Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emission Patterns Ching-Yi Hung and Pat Bodger ................................................................................................ 1590 Stochastic Optimization of Electric Generation and Trading-Planning in Liberalized Market Mohamed El-Sayed .................................................................................................................. 1598 Harmonic Analysis of Hysteresis Controlled Grid-Connected Inverters Ahmad Albanna and Constantine Hatziadoniu ......................................................................... 1605 Energy Saving of Green Buildings Using Natural Daylight Li Wang; Win-Bin Lin and Wei-Jen Lee ..................................................................................1613 Load Flow Methods for Radial and Weakly-Meshed Networks: Concept of Duality C. Radhakrishna Dharmasa; H.S. Jain and Praveen Reddy ...................................................... 1620

PSCE 2009

Emerging Technologies Chair: Miroslav Begovic, Georgia Tech Sponsor: Emerging Technologies Coordinating Multi-Agent Systems in a Distributed Smart Grid: Design and Implementation Manisa Pipattanasomporn; Hassan Feroze and Saifur Rahman ................................................ 1629 Thermal Energy Management of a CHP Hybrid of Wind and a Grid-Parallel PEM Fuel Cell Power Plant Mohamed El-Sharkh; A. Rahman; M. Alam and A. A. El-Keib .............................................. 1637 Coupling Fuel-Constrained Power Plant and NaS Battery System for Profit Increment in a Competitive Electricity Market S. Jalal Kazempour; Majid Hosseinpour; Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam and Gholam-Reza Yousefi ........................................................................................................ 1643 Control and Stability of Power Inverters Feeding Renewable Power to Weak AC Grids with No or Low Mechanical Inertia Walter Kuehn ............................................................................................................................ 1652 Decentralized Nonlinear Excitation Control Based on Wide-Area Measurements Jun Qi; Guangzeng Wang; Quanyuan Jiang and Yijia Cao ......................................................1660 Desperately seeking energy efficiency ... using Information and Communication Technologies? Vincent Mazauric; Nadia Maizi; Alain Anglade and Gilles Guerassimoff ..............................1665 NSF Career Awards: Experiences in Research & Education Chair: Dagmar Niebur, National Science Foundation Sponsor: Power Engineering Education Power Quality Research and Education: A New Power Engineer for Today’s Energy Challenges Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo .............................................................................................................. 1669 The National Science Foundation and Its Quest for Tomorrow's Academic Leaders Joydeep Mitra ........................................................................................................................... 1670 Getting an NSF CAREER Award and Beyond Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy ............................................................................................ 1671 For What It's Worth: My Advice to Young Investigators on Preparation of an NSF-CAREER Proposal Michael Ropp ........................................................................................................................... 1672 A Novel Hybrid Modulation Scheme for an Isolated High-Frequency-Link Fuel Cell Inverter Sudip Mazumder....................................................................................................................... 1673

PSCE 2009

Power System Communications #1 Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications Analysis of Effect of Power line Channel Characteristic Parameters in Broadband Power Line Communication (BPLC) Systems Surekha Ramesh; T. Ananthapadmanabha and C. Puttamadappa ............................................1674 Vulnerability Assessment for Communication Network of Substation Automation Systems to Cyber Attack Nian Liu; Jianhua Zhang; Hao Zhang and Wenxia Liu ............................................................ 1680 Communication Protocols and Networks for Power Systems- Current Status and Future Trends Salman Mohagheghi; James Stoupis and Zhenyuan Wang ...................................................... 1687 Power System Communications #2 Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications How to Evaluate and Deploy the Latest Advancements in Communication Networks Dan Paladino ............................................................................................................................ 1696 Gateway Platform for Connecting D-TRS in Power IT Tae Eui Jeong; Byung Kwen Song; Jincheol Kim; Youngeok Kim; Taeku Kang and Sangjin Kim .............................................................................................................................. 1699 PSACE Forum 2 Chair: Roger Dugan, EPRI Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Analysis Method of Voltage Stability for Bulk Power System by P-V and Q-V Curves Considering Dynamic Load Suo Lian; Shoich Minami; Satoshi Morii and Shunji Kawamoto ............................................. 1706 A New Reactive Power Valuation Method Based On Analytic Hierarchical Process Salman Fattahi; Saeed Afsharnia and Mohamad Hossein Javidi ..............................................1712 Feedback-Control-Based Optimal Power Flow for Real-Time Operation Ali Al-Awami and Mohamed El-Sharkawi .............................................................................. 1719 Utility-Owned DG Units’ Impacts on Distribution System Operation Ayed Algarni and Kankar Bhattacharya ................................................................................... 1725 Reliable Placement of Synchronized Phasor Measurements on Network Branches Roozbeh Emami and Ali Abur .................................................................................................1731

PSCE 2009

Analyzing Valid Inequalities of the Generation Unit Commitment Problem Kory Hedman; Richard O'Neill and Shmuel Oren ...................................................................1737 Distributed Simulation of Power Systems using Real-time Digital Simulator Krishnanjan Ravikumar; Noel Schulz and Anurag Srivastava .................................................1743 Identification and Detection of Electricity Customer Behaviour Irregularities Anisah Nizar and Zhao Dong ...................................................................................................1749 Adopting Appropriate Bidding Strategies under Uncertain Conditions and Security Constraints in Deregulated Power Markets Ramezan Paravi Torghabeh and Hamid Khaloozadeh .............................................................1759 Automatic Generation Control System for an Industrial Facility with Onsite Generation JJ Dai; Hugo Castro; Jianjun Guo; Tanuj Khandelwal; Shervin Shokooh and Farrokh Shokooh ................................................................................................................ 1765 Integrated Voltage, Var Control and Demand Response in Distribution Systems Nokhum Markushevich and Edward H. P. Chan ...................................................................... 1773 Least-Squares Polynomial Approximation for Short-Term Generation Unit Asset Valuation N. S. Sisworahardjo; A. A. El-Keib and M. Alam .................................................................... 1777 Field Investigation and Analysis of Incipient Faults Leading to a Catastrophic Failure in an Underground Distribution Feeder Rohit Moghe; Mirrasoul Mousavi; James Stoupis and John McGowan ................................... 1783 Substation Automation, Monitoring and Transformer Noise Chair: Hermann Koch, Siemens AG Sponsor: Substations Determination of Optimal Transformer Noise Levels in Outdoor Substations Using Pseudo-Inverse Hideaki Tanaka; Daiki Yamashita; Tak Niimura and Ryuichi Yokoyama ............................... 1789 Circuit Breaker Duty Monitoring from the Control Center Quang Binh Dam and A. P. Meliopoulos ................................................................................. 1795 Substation Data Integration and Utilization Biljana Matic Cuka; Mladen Kezunovic and Tomo Popovic ................................................... 1801 A Performance Prediction Framework for Protection and Control Applications in Substation Automation Stefan Barthel; Jean-Charles Tournier; Thomas Werner and Stefan Richter ........................... 1807 Testing IEC 61850 Based Multi-vendor Substation Automation Systems for Interoperability Jian-Cheng (JC) Tan; Vincent Green and John Ciufo .............................................................. 1815

PSCE 2009

Large Scale Offshore Wind Farms to be Connected to the Transmission Network H. Koch .................................................................................................................................... 1820 System Economics 1 Chair: Xiaoming Feng, ABB Co-Chair: Kankar Bhattacharya, University of Waterloo Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Optimal Unit Maintenance Scheduling of a Power Prouducer under Price Uncertainty Changyou Feng; Xifan Wang and Haoyong Chen ................................................................... 1824 Decentralised Allocation of Generation in Autonomous Power Networks Jasper Frunt; W. L. Kling and J. M. A. Myrzik ........................................................................ 1832 A Triple-Stage Algorithm for Optimal Unit Scheduling of Thermal Units Sun-Nien Yu ............................................................................................................................. 1839 A Literature Survey of Optimal Power Flow Problem in Electricity Market Context Zhifeng Qiu; Geert Deconinck and Ronnie Belmans ............................................................... 1845 Analytical Methods 2 Chair: Edwin Liu, Quanta Technology Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics A Wavelet Transform Approach to Adaptive Extraction of Partial Discharge Pulses from Interferences Zhousheng Zhang; Dengming Xiao and Yilu Liu ....................................................................1851 Evaluating Performance of WFA K-Means and Modified Follow the Leader Methods for Clustering Load Curves Nadali Mahmoudi Kohan; Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam and Seyed Mohamad Bidaki ..............1858 Dynamic Security Assessment Using Time-Domain Simulator Uros Kerin; Grega Bizjak; Edwin Lerch; Olaf Ruhle and Rainer Krebs .................................. 1863 A Robust Algorithm for Volt/Var Control Andrija Saric and Aleksander Stankovic ..................................................................................1869 Distributed Generation Control #1 Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications Economic Dispatch using Particle Swarm Optimization for Combined Cycle Generators Omar Konash ............................................................................................................................ 1877 Ant Colony Optimization for Microgrid Multi-Objective Power Management Chris Colson; Hashem Nehrir and Caisheng Wang .................................................................. 1886

PSCE 2009

Distributed Generation Control #2 Chair: TBD, TBD Sponsor: Power System Communications Control Methodology of Distributed Generation in Interconnected Grids Egon Ortjohann; Worpong Sinsukthavorn; Alaa Mohd; M. Lingemann; N. Hamsic; A. Schmelter and Danny Morton ..............................................................................................1893 The Importance of Standard SCADA Protocols to the Reliable Operation of Distributed Farm-Scale Anaerobic Digesters Greg Linder ..............................................................................................................................1899 Optimal Power Flow for a System of Microgrids with Controllable Loads and Battery Storage Eric Sortomme and Mohamed El-Sharkawi ............................................................................. 1905 Distribution System Analysis 1 Chair: Jean-Sébastien Lacroix, CYME International T&D Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Integrated Reliability Evaluation of Distribution and Sub-Transmission Systems Incorporating Distributed Generation Waltencir Andrade; Carmen Borges and Djalma Falcão .......................................................... 1910 A Heuristic Constructive Algorithm for Capacitor Placement on Distribution Systems Ivo Chaves da Silva Jr; Sandoval Carneiro Jr; Edimar Jose Oliveira; Jeferson de Souza Costa; Jose Luiz R. Pereira and Paulo Augusto N. Garcia ..........................1916 Application of Ordinal Optimization for Distribution System Reconfiguration Fangxing Li .............................................................................................................................. 1917 Determination of Load and Generation Composition in Distribution Grids Constantin Reese and Lutz Hofmann .......................................................................................1925 Planning and Operation of Distributed Generations in Distribution Systems for Improved Voltage Profile K. Vinoth Kumar and Selvan M. P. ..........................................................................................1932 An Approach to Mitigate the Impact of Distributed Generation on the Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Radial Feeders Hamed Funmilayo and Karen Butler-Purry .............................................................................. 1939

PSCE 2009

FACTS/Power Electronics Applications to Improve Power System Dynamic Performance Chair: John J. Paserba, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Historical Overview on Dynamic Reactive Power Compensation Solutions from the Begin of AC Power Transmission Towards Present Applications Heinz Tyll and Frank Schettler ................................................................................................. 1950Bayamon SVC Project in Puerto Rico Samit Shah ................................................................................................................................ 1957 Managing Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery in Metro Atlanta with the Barrow County SVC Daniel Sullivan; Ron Pape; Joe Birsa; Mike Riggle; Masatoshi Takeda; Hitoshi Teramoto; Yoshiyuki Kono; Koji Temma; Satoshi Yasuda; Ken Wofford; Paul Attaway and Jerry Lawson ...................................................................................................................... 1961 Preventing Voltage Collapse by Large SVCs at Power System Faults Ahmed Al-Mubarak; Saleh M. Bamsak; Bjorn Thorvaldsson; Mikael Halonen and Rolf Grunbaum .................................................................................................................. 1967 Dynamic Performance of the Next Generation Synchronous Condenser at VELCO Paul Marken; Dean LaForest; Rob D'Aquila; Dan Wallace; Erik Kronbeck and John Skliutas ...................................................................................................................... 1976 System Economics 2 Chair: Eugene Litvinov, ISO New England Co-Chair: Avnaesh Jayantilal, AREVA T&D Sponsor: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics On Reducing Uplift Payment in Electricity Markets Bingjie Zhang; Peter Luh; Eugene Litvinov; Tongxin Zheng and Feng Zhao .........................1981 Scenario Generation for Price Forecasting in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets Qun Zhou; Leigh Tesfatsion and Chen-ching Liu .................................................................... 1988 Post-Market Determination of the Real-Time Market Commitment Types for Settlement Dingguo Chen and Bixia Zhou ................................................................................................. 1996 Method to Detect and Measure Potential Market Power on Electricity Markets using the Concept of Monopolistic Energy Martin Elfstadius; Daniel Gecer; Lars Nordström and Daniel Axehill ..................................... 2004 Transformers Chair: Tom Prevost, Weidmann Diagonstics Solutions Sponsor: Transformers Experimental Verification of Distribution Transformer Model under Lightning Strokes Nehmdoh Sabiha and Matti Lehtonen ...................................................................................... 2011

PSCE 2009

Remnant Life Estimation of Power Transformer Using Oil UV-Vis Spectral Response Ahmed Abu Siada; lai Sin Pin and Syed Islam......................................................................... 2017 Power Transformer DGA Data Processing and Alarming Tool for On-line Monitors Yishan Liang; Zhenyuan Wang and Yilu Liu ........................................................................... 2022 Wide Area Measurements and Generators Chair: Jeff Smith, EPRI Co-Chair: Pouyan Pourbeik, EPRI Sponsor: Power System Dynamic Performance Inter-Area Oscillations Damping using Dynamic Braking and Phasor Measurements Edin Huseinbasic; Igor Kuzle and Tomislav Tomisa ............................................................... 2030 Wide-Area Measurements of Three North America Interconnections at Distribution Level Jingyuan Dong; Tao Xia; Yingchen Zhang; Lei Wang; Yilu Liu; Lisa Beard and Terry Bilke ......................................................................................................................... 2036 Wide Area Synchronized Measurements and Inter-Area Oscillation Study Wei Li; Robert Gardner; Jingyuan Dong; Lei Wang; Tao Xia; Yingchen Zhang; Yilu Liu; Guorui Zhang and Yusheng Xue .............................................................................. 2044 A Predictive Approach to Control Frequency Instabilities in a Wide Area System Sanam Mirzazad-Barijough; Meisam Mashhuri and Ali M. Ranjbar ....................................... 2052 Design of Damping Controllers for Doubly Fed Induction Generators Using Eigenvalue Sensitivities Lukas Sigrist and Luis Rouco .................................................................................................. 2058 A Decentralized Immune Based Automatic Generation Control Design in Compliance with NERC's Standards Rabie Belkacemi and Ali Feliachi ............................................................................................ 2065 Maiden Application of Ziegler-Nichols Method to AGC of Distributed Generation System G. Mallesham; S. Mishra and A.N. Jha .................................................................................... 2072 Author Index