A Montefiore/CCLab Seminar

Sponsored by
Institut d’Electricité Montefiore
(Université de Liège)

March 22-25, 1999 Liège, Belgium

Changes in the structure of electric utilities and the creation of free markets for energy trading are bringing about a redefinition of power system operation and control and forcing a re-examination of the design concepts for power system control centers. Many utilities throughout the world are on the threshold of a new beginning in system operation and control as they enter into the arena of a free electricity market.

This seminar will address the economic and technical aspects of modifying or adapting power system operation and control in the context of the restructured utilities and the open competitive environment. Presentations will be made by invited speakers who are leading experts in the fields of economics, system operation, control center design, power system analysis, transient stability, voltage stability, and automatic learning. The presentations will cover the economics of electricity as a commodity in a free market; changes in operation and control; new design considerations for control centers; the application of information and objective technologies to support trading mechanisms; and the problems of dynamic security (transient and voltage stability) which are being intensified by heavier stresses on the electrical network occasioned by open trading.

The seminar will be rounded off by demonstrations on the Control Center Laboratory (CCLab) of dynamic security software integrated into an EMS.

CCLab is a unique laboratory based on a commercial control center platform complete with SCADA functions and all advanced EMS application software, operator training simulator, and maintenance and development tools. CCLab is a center for the demonstration and testing of real-time and off-line software in a realistic control center environment




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