Real-time frequency based reduced order modeling of large power grid

Abstract: Large power systems are complex and real-time modeling of the grid for electromagnetic simulation (EMT) studies is impractical. In general, there are methods that reduce large power system into an equivalent network that requires less computational resource, while preserving electromechanical (low frequency) and high frequency behavior of the original system. This can be achieved by modeling the area not of interest (external area) as a combination of Transient Stability Analysis (TSA) type phasor model equivalent and Frequency Dependent Network Equivalent (FDNE). TSA retains electromechanical behavior, whereas FDNE retains high frequency behavior of the original power system. To this effect, this paper introduces a method of developing FDNE based on an online recursive least squares (RLS) identification algorithm in z-domain, and modeling of reduced power systems as FDNE and as a combination of TSA and FDNE using real-time digital simulators.