System for control performance standards
View Patent ↗Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: detecting a NERC disturbance in an electrical power system; determining a first corrective action to return the electrical power system to a pre-disturbance level within a predetermined disturbance recovery time; determining a second corrective action to cause the electrical power system to meet one or more predefined NERC CPS compliance target values; and providing a corrective control signal to the electrical power system.
1. A method, comprising:
detecting a North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) disturbance in an electrical power system;
determining a first corrective action to return the electrical power system to a pre-disturbance level within a predetermined disturbance recovery time;
determining a second corrective action to cause the electrical power system to meet one or more predefined NERC Control Performance Standard (CPS) compliance target values; and
providing a corrective control signal to the electrical power system, the corrective control signal determined based upon a Lagrange Multiplier approach.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
monitoring the electrical power system for disturbances.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a disturbance.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
filtering out a non-conforming disturbance.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving real-time Area Control Error (ACE) data for the electrical power system.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining a current Automatic Generation Control (AGC) performance value.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining historical Automatic Generation Control (AGC) performance values.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a Control Performance Standard 1 (CPS1) compliance factor from real-time ACE data for the electrical power system.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining a Control Performance Standard 1 (CPS 1) compliance target value.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
evaluating a Control Performance Standard 1 (CPS 1) compliance factor.
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a Control Performance Standard 2 (CPS2) compliance factor from real-time ACE data for the electrical power system.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining a Control Performance Standard 2 (CPS2) compliance target value.
13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
evaluating a Control Performance Standard 2 (CPS2) compliance factor.
14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating the first corrective action.
15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating the second corrective action.
16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prioritizing the first corrective action and the second corrective action.
17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
predicting the NERC disturbance.
18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
anticipating the corrective control signal.
19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
archiving data related to the NERC disturbance.
20. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a NERC report comprising Control Performance Standard 1 (CPS1) compliance statistics.
21. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a NERC report comprising Control Performance Standard 2 (CPS2) compliance statistics.
22. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
submitting a NERC report comprising Control Performance Standard 2 (CPS1) compliance statistics.
23. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
submitting a NERC report comprising Control Performance Standard 1 (CPS2) compliance statistics.
24. The method of claim 1 , wherein the corrective control signal is based on the first corrective action.
25. The method of claim 1 , wherein the corrective control signal is based on the second corrective action.
26. A machine-readable medium containing executable instructions for activities comprising:
detecting a North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) disturbance in an electrical power system;
determining a first corrective action to return the electrical power system to a pre-disturbance level within a predetermined disturbance recovery time;
determining a second corrective action to cause the electrical power system to meet one or more predefined NERC Control Performance Standard (CPS) compliance target values; and
providing a corrective control signal to the electrical power system, the corrective control signal determined based upon a Lagrange Multiplier approach.
27. A system comprising:
a North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) disturbance detection processor coupled to an electrical power system;
a first determination processor adapted to determine a first corrective action to return the electrical power system to a pre-disturbance level within a predetermined disturbance recovery time; and
a second determination processor adapted to determine a second corrective action to cause the electrical power system to meet one or more predefined NERC Control Performance Standard (CPS) compliance target values, said second determination processor adapted to base the second corrective action upon a Lagrange Multiplier approach.