Performance of "WAMS East" in providing dynamic information for the North East Blackout of August 14, 2003

2004 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1685-1690

  Hauer, John F ^a   Bhatt, Navin B ^b   Shah, Kirit ^c   Kolluri, Sharma ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER   (United States)

^c Ameren   (United States)

^d Entergy Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

August 14 Blackout; Phasor measurements; Power system dynamics; Power system reliability; WAMS

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DYNAMIC SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION (DSI); PHASOR DATA CONCENTRATIONS (PDC); PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNITS (PMU); PORTABLE POWER SYSTEM MONITOR (PPMS);

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 13344259932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada. Issued by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, November 2003.
2. J. F. Hauer, W. A. Mittelstadt, K. E. Martin, and J. W. Burns, Itegrated Monitor Facilities for the Western Power System: The WECC WAMS in 2003. Draft report of the WECC Disturbance Monitoring Work Group, June 25, 2003. Available: http://www.wecc.biz/committees/JGC/DMWG/documents/
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8. John Hauer, Navin Bhatt, Kirit Shah, Sharma Kolluri, Michael Ingram, "WAMS East:" A Synchronized System Measurements (SSM) Network for the Eastern Interconnection." Presentation to the Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project Roadmap Meeting in Arlington, VA on October 29, 2003. Slides available upon request.