Online Courses: Power Systems Operation and Control (ILLINOIS-USA)

Course Director:  Prof. George Gross

Course Description:




This course discusses energy control center functions, power system operating states, supervisory control and data acquisition, state estimation, on-line load flow, security assessment, economic dispatch, automatic generation control, optimal power flow, security constrained economic dispatch, multistage rescheduling, and equivalents.













Course Handouts:


Syllabus
References
Lecture 1- Overview & Background
Lecture 2- Power System Security Monitoring
Lecture 3- Minimization Review
Lecture 4- Duality Theory of Nonlinear Programming
Lecture 5- Economic Dispatch
Lecture 6- Basic Optimal Power Flow (OPF) Problem
Lecture 7- Economic Interpretation of Lagrange Multiplees
Lecture 8- Pricing Considerations
Lecture 9- Newton OPF
Lecture 10- Sequential Quadratic Programming Solution of the OPF
Lecture 11- Security and OPF
Lecture 12- OPF Issues and Challenges
Lecture 13- Reactive Power Support
Lecture 14- Introduction to Unit Commitment
Lecture 15- Dynamic Programming Based Unit Commitment Scheme Solutions
Lecture 16- Lagrangian Relaxation Solution of Unit Commitment
Lecture 17- Optimal Offer Strategies in Competitive Electricity Markets
Lecture 18- Review
Lecture 19- Static State Estimation
Lecture 20- Observability
Lecture 21- Congestion Management
Lecture 22- General LMP evaluation