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Using Effective Generator Impedance for Forced Oscillation Source Location
Locating the sources of forced low-frequency oscillations in power systems is
an important problem. A number of proposed methods demonstrate their practical
usefulness, but many of them rely on strong modeling assumptions and provide
poor performance in certain cases for reasons still not well understood. This
paper proposes a systematic method for locating the source of a forced
oscillation by considering a generator's response to fluctuations of its
terminal voltages and currents. It is shown that a generator can be represented
as an effective admittance matrix with respect to low-frequency oscillations,
and an explicit form for this matrix, for various generator models, is derived.
Furthermore, it is shown that a source generator, in addition to its effective
admittance, is characterized by the presence of an effective current source
thus giving a natural qualitative distinction between source and nonsource
generators. Detailed descriptions are given of a source detection procedure
based on this developed representation, and the method's effectiveness is
confirmed by simulations on the recommended testbeds (eg. WECC 179-bus system).
This method is free of strong modeling assumptions and is also shown to be
robust in the presence of measurement noise and generator parameter
uncertainty.Comment: 13 page
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