Wide-area monitoring and control at hydro-Québec: Past, present and future

2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kamwa, I ^a,b   Beland J ^b   Trudel, G ^a,b   Grondin, R ^a,b   Lafond, C ^b   McNabb, D ^b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Damping controller; FACTS; Inter area oscillations; Phasor measurement units (PMU); Power system stability; Power system stabilizer (PSS); Small signal stability; SVC; Transfer limits; Wide area measurements and control

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; POWER SYSTEM STABILIZER (PSS); SMALL-SIGNAL STABILITY; WIDE-AREA MEASUREMENTS AND CONTROL;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 35348887227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/pes.2006.1709097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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