English

Model Validation Study for Central American Regional Electrical Interconnected System

Systems and Control 2021-03-17 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

The Central American Regional Interconnected Power System (SER) connects six countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, it is operated by the regional system operator Ente Operador Regional (EOR). Due to its geographical shape and layout of major transmission lines, SER has a weakly meshed grid, where disturbances can easily propagate, challenging its reliability. Having an accurate dynamic model is important for EOR when facing those reliability challenges. This paper describes interconnection-level model validation efforts for the SER and Mexico interconnected system. A detailed equivalent model of Mexico is incorporated in the existing SER planning model used by EOR. The resultant model is then validated using simulated dynamic contingency analysis and real system disturbance data. A fully automated suite of scripts is also developed and shared with EOR engineers. This work helps EOR improve their validation routine practices, to continuously improve SER dynamic model, and hence its reliability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.08667,
  title  = {Model Validation Study for Central American Regional Electrical Interconnected System},
  author = {Xiaoyuan Fan and Marcelo A. Elizondo and Pavel V. Etingov and Mallikarjuna R. Vallem and Shuchismita Biswas and Seemita Pal and Carlos Erroa and Christian Munoz and Daniel Polanco and Victor Villeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08667},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

5 pages, 6 figures, conference

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