WECC RAS and Contingency Workshop Materials

PowerWorld Corporation staff led a RAS Modeling Workshop at WECC offices on May 27 – 29, 2015 in Salt Lake City. This workshop consisted generally of the following material.

3 hours of pure presentations
4 hours of basic software training on PowerWorld Simulator
7 hours of hands-on workshop with engineers from throughout WECC sitting down to model their RAS and contingency definitions

All PowerWorld Simulator training materials have always been available on our website and much of the following also has free online videos to walk you through the training. However, for those in attendance as well as those who may want the material to go through themselves, the following links summarize all the presentations covered during the workshop. The links provided here refer to the slides used specifically for this workshop or point directly to training slides available on other parts of PowerWorld’s website.

Introduction (special presentation stating why RAS and Contingency modeling is important)
Case Logic Relationships: Foundation of RAS Filtering, Conditions, Expressions, Variable Names, Device Filtering
- Part 1 (The Case Information Display training)
- Part 2 (see portions on defining interfaces and defining injection groups)
Text File Format Basics: DATA Section (from PowerWorld Simulator introductory training course)
MW Participation Factor Control in Power Flow (from PowerWorld Simulator introductory training course)
Contingency Analysis Basics (from PowerWorld Simulator introductory training course)
Limit Monitoring Settings (from PowerWorld Simulator introductory training course)
Advanced Power Flow Solutions: Line Drop Compensation, Var Sharing, Balance Taps
- Part 1 (from PowerWorld Simulator Security training course)
- Part 2 (from PowerWorld Simulator Security training course)
Parts of Modeling of Remedial Action Schemes (special presentation summarizing the various parts of modeling a RAS)
Implementation of 2 RAS Examples (A special presentation from in-person workshop presented a real case and 1 real RAS. This presentation posted to our public website has the same material, but names and numbers have been obfuscated.)
Encoding in the WECC Contingency and RAS Format (AUX file) (this is a link to the PDF document describing all the various parts of a RAS)

Tags: Presentation,Simulator,Tutorial

June 2, 2015