ECE 467 Power Systems Analysis, Operations and Markets

Prof. Claudio A. Cañizares

Office: EIT-4168

Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 35355

E-mail: ccanizares@uwaterloo.ca

Web: Power and Energy Systems Group, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy

Objectives: Gain an understanding of the operation and management of power systems considering the main technical and economic issues.

Content:

  1. Review (3 lectures)
    1. Power systems overview
    2. Modeling:  per unit, lines, transformers, synchronous machines, induction machines and loads
  2. Power systems economic operations (6 lectures)
    1. Economic load dispatch:  Kuhn-Tucker's conditions, marginal costs, limits and loses
    2. Unit commitment problem and solution
  3. Power system operation analysis (6 lectures)
    1. Power flows:  equations, solutions, fast decoupled method, dc power flow model and matrix analysis
    2. Contingency analysis
    3. Optimal power flows and solution
  4. Electricity markets (6 lectures)
    1. History and structure
    2. Fundamentals
    3. Auction mechanism
  5. Fault analysis (6 lectures)
    1. Symmetrical components
    2. Sequence models
    3. Balance and unbalance faults
  6. Power system stability and control (9 lectures)
    1. Definitions
    2. Angle stability
    3. Voltage stability and control
    4. Frequency stability and control

Textbook: A. Gómez-Expósito, A. J. Conejo, and C. A. Cañizares, Editors, Electric Energy Systems: Analysis and Operation, CRC Press, July 2008, ISBN 0849373654

Assignment References:

  1. A. R. Bergen and V. Vittal, Power Systems Analysis, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
  2. A. J. Wood and B. F. Wollenberg, Power Generation, Operation and Control, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
  3. Course notes will be made available on uWaterloo Learn.

Requisites: Basic knowledge of power systems components, modeling and analysis is required (ECE 361), as well as some familiarity with numerical methods.

Assignments: There will be six individual assignments (one for each topic) comprised of various examples from the textbook and problems from the references books. Due dates will be provided with the assignment description; if due dates are missed, zero marks will be assigned. Exam questions will be similar to the assignment questions.

Project: There will be a group (2 people) project consisting on simulating and analyzing various electricity market auctions on a 6-bus system using AMPL/GAMS. The due date will be provided with the project description; if the due date is missed, zero marks will be assigned. 

Marking:

  1. Project: 25 %
  2. Midterm Exam: 25 %
  3. Final Exam: 50 %
  4. Assignments: +5 % (optional)