Enhancing Grid Measurements: Wide Area Measurement Systems, NASPInet, and Security
Rakesh B. Bobbaa b, Jeff Daglec d, Erich Heinea b, Himanshu Khuranae f, William H. Sandersa b, Peter W. Sauera b, Tim Yardleya b
- aUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- bUniv. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Il (USA)
- cPacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- dPacific Northwest National Laboratory
- eHoneywell Automation and Control Systems Laboratories, USA
- fHoneywell Automation and Control Systems Labs
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Abstract
Deregulation, market transactions, congestion management, and the separation of functions have created increasing complexity that is making it difficult to maintain situational awareness and supervision of power system performance over large areas. Past reliability events (such as blackouts) have highlighted the need for better situational awareness and advanced applications to improve planning, operations, and maintenance. The deployment of a continent- wide wide area measurement system (WAMS) is an important part of the solution to these complex problems, but it faces challenges with respect to communications and security.