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Database of Power Grid Frequency Measurements

Systems and Control 2021-06-15 v3 Systems and Control Signal Processing Physics and Society

Abstract

The transformation of the electrical energy system attracts much attention in diverse research communities. Novel approaches for modeling, control, and power grid architectures are widely proposed. Data from actual power system operation are therefore critical to evaluate models and to analyze real-world scenarios. However, they are rarely available. In the present paper, we introduce a precisely time-stamped data set of power grid frequency measurements. It covers twelve synchronous areas of different sizes in one-second resolution. The contribution includes synchronized measurements within the Continental European synchronous area acquired in Portugal, Germany, and Turkey, maximizing the geographical span. Finally, we provide excerpts of the underlying waveform. Data were collected using a self-developed measurement instrument, the Electrical Data Recorder (EDR), connected mostly to conventional power sockets. We close our description with a discussion on measurement error and data quality.

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@article{arxiv.2006.01771,
  title  = {Database of Power Grid Frequency Measurements},
  author = {Richard Jumar and Heiko Maaß and Benjamin Schäfer and Leonardo Rydin Gorjão and Veit Hagenmeyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01771},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

28 pages, 10 figures. Data associated with this paper are located here: https://osf.io/by5hu/

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