Modern Electric Power System Operation

Electricity is part of daily life-used to cook, wash clothes, watch TV, etc. Behind the sockets, there is an enormous system up-running, which guarantees the electricity delivery from generating resources. This book explores the basic problems of this delivery process, from security to optimal operation costs and provides examples of various handling techniques to integrate power flow into the constraints of the optimisation problem. Additional topics that are covered include: operation and voltage, least square method in state estimation, principles of operation under market scenarios, N-1 criterion in security assessment, and static security involving DC/AC load flow solutions. Ultimately, the aim of this book is to enable the reader to bridge the gap between the current system operation problems and solutions and real world engineering applications.