A Distribution Level Wide Area Monitoring System for the Electric Power Grid–FNET/GridEye

• Main Authors: Yong Liu, Shutang You, Wenxuan Yao, Yi Cui, Ling Wu, Dao Zhou, Jiecheng Zhao, Hesen Liu, Yilu Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Dynamics; power grids; phasor measurement units; wide area measurements
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7849130/
• ISSN: 2169-3536

The wide area monitoring system (WAMS) is considered a pivotal component of future electric power grids. As a pilot WAMS that has been operated for more than a decade, the frequency monitoring network FNET/GridEye makes use of hundreds of global positioning system-synchronized phasor measurement sensors to capture the increasingly complicated grid behaviors across the interconnected power systems. In this paper, the FNET/GridEye system is overviewed and its operation experiences in electric power grid wide area monitoring are presented. Particularly, the implementation of a number of data analytics applications will be discussed in details. FNET/GridEye lays a firm foundation for the later WAMS operation in the electric power industry.