Network Modeling and Load Flow Analyses

Network Modeling and Load Flow Analyses
Network Modeling and Load Flow Analyses
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.)