Improving reliability through better models: Using synchrophasor data to validate power plant models

IEEE Power and Energy Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 44-51

  Overholt, Philip ^a   Kosterev, Dmitry ^b   Eto, Joseph ^c   Yang, Steve ^c   Lesieutre, Bernard ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^b BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY RESOURCES;

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATIONS; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; ELECTRICITY DELIVERY; POWER PLANT MODELS; SYNCHROPHASOR DATUM; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84899672724     PISSN: 15407977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPE.2014.2301533     Document Type: Article

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