Closed Loop Assessment of Curative Actions in a Power System Control Center Demonstrator

Abstract:
By current security principles, system operators are obligated to operate their respective system based on the N-1 principle. Therefore, the overall system has to be secured preventively against cascading outages. In recent years, the use of curative measures has been discussed. Thereby, instead of establishing N-1 security solely based on preventive measures, it is thinkable of allowing a higher utilization of the power system in its pre-fault condition while addressing possible contingencies with curative actions. Before such curative operation schemes can be rolled out to live operation, a multitude of questions need to be answered, i.e., what has to be considered for implementing such schemes as well as how system operators interact with such new tools. Many aspects can be tested on a suitable demonstrator platform. This paper address the general architecture of such a demonstrator platform, including the underlying process simulation, and describes the designated use cases that are tested on the system.