Topics Covered

Overview of requirements and constraints, real time operation and monitoring in power system; supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Energy management system (EMS); on-line application functions; state estimation, short term load forecasting, unit commitment, automatic generation control (AGC), load frequency control (LFC) and security control. Open architecture EMS, on-line algorithm's speed enhancement: sparsity exploitation, fast decoupling, model/system decomposition, parallel processing-hierarchical computer and array processor configuration, application of expert system, pattern recognition, artificial neural network (ANN), fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. EMS in the context of deregulation of utilities and independent system operator (ISO).