Network Modeling and Load Flow Analyses
20.05.2015
Participants: Members from TSOs and Power Utilities from Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.
Place: Arusha (Tanzania)
Duration: 3 days
Day 1
- Introduction to PSS/E software working environment
- Program overview
- Graphical interface
- Program options and settings
- Working with files
- Building new model
- Hands-on exercise
- Network modelling
- Basic modelling principles in EATP regional model (bus names, numbers, areas, voltage levels, etc.)
- Buses
- Loads
- Branches
- Hands-on exercise
Day 2
- Network modelling
- Machines
- Transformers
- Shunts
- Hands-on exercise
- Graphical Representation
- Create single line diagram
- Changing data using diagram
- Diagram properties
- Hands-on exercise
- Modifying network data
- Renumbering
- Deleting/Join/Moving
- Scaling
- Hands-on exercise
Day 3
- Power flow simulations
- Parameter settings
- Running LF simulations
- Reports
- Network limit violations
- Hands-on exercise
- Contingency analyses
- AC Contingency solution
- Configuration file builder
- Reports
- Hands-on exercise
- National models assessment
- Overview
- Modelling quality
- Harmonization requirements (power balances, codification etc.)