Application of Synchrophasors

In Application of Synchrophasors, you'll learn ...

• Five mandatory real-time tools recommended by NERC for reliability coordinators and transmission operators
• Key elements of synchrophasor technology, including hardware and software, technical standards and security considerations
• Various ways that synchrophasor data and applications can be used to support grid reliability

Overview

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Credit: 3 CPD

Length: 48 pages

This 3-hour course reviews the many ways that synchrophasor technology can be used to support real time and off-line activities to enhance the reliable operations of the bulk power system. It can help deliver better real-time tools that enhance system operators’ situational awareness.

A synchrophasor system -- with wide deployment of phasor measurement units and dedicated high-speed communications to collect and deliver synchronized high-speed grid condition data, along with analytics and other advanced on-line dynamic security assessment and control applications -- will improve real-time situational awareness and decision support tools to enhance system reliability.

Synchrophasor measurements can also be used to improve component and system models for both on-line and off-line network analysis to assess system security and adequacy to withstand expected contingencies.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• The real-time data needs of electric system operators
• The real time tools used by system operators
• The use of synchrophasors
• How phasor data is used in system operations
• The components of a synchrophasor system
• The purpose of PMU’s
• The network architecture of synchrophasors

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.