Foreword xxiii -- Acknowledgments xxv -- Contributors xxvii -- 1. INTRODUCTION 1 -- Mircea Eremia and Mohammad Shahidehpour -- PART I POWER SYSTEM MODELING AND CONTROL 7 -- 2. SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR AND INDUCTION MOTOR 9 -- Mircea Eremia and Constantin Bulac -- 2.1. Theory and Modeling of Synchronous Generator 9 -- 2.2. Theory and Modeling of the Induction Motor 114 -- 3. MODELING THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF THE CLASSICAL POWER PLANTS 137 -- Mohammad Shahidehpour, Mircea Eremia, and Lucian Toma -- 3.1. Introduction 137 -- 3.2. Types of Turbines 138 -- 3.3. Thermal Power Plants 143 -- 3.4. Combined-Cycle Power Plants 158 -- 3.5. Nuclear Power Plants 167 -- 3.6. Hydraulic Power Plants 169 -- 4. WIND POWER GENERATION 179 -- Mohammad Shahidehpour and Mircea Eremia -- 4.1. Introduction 179 -- 4.2. Some Characteristics of Wind Power Generation 181 -- 4.3. State of the Art Technologies 184 -- 4.4. Modeling the Wind Turbine Generators 200 -- 4.5. Fault Ride-Through Capability 223 -- 5. SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENTS CALCULATION 229 -- Nouredine Hadjsaid, Ion TriSstiu, and Lucian Toma -- 5.1. Introduction 229 -- 5.2. Characteristics of Short-Circuit Currents 232 -- 5.3. Methods of Short-Circuit Currents Calculation 236 -- 5.4. Calculation of Short-Circuit Current Components 264 -- 6. ACTIVE POWER AND FREQUENCY CONTROL 291 -- Les Pereira -- 6.1. Introduction 291 -- 6.2. Frequency Deviations in Practice 293 -- 6.3. Typical Standards and Policies for "Active Power and Frequency Control" or "Load Frequency Control" 294 -- 6.4. System Modeling, Inertia, Droop, Regulation, and Dynamic Frequency Response 297 -- 6.5. Governor Modeling 302 -- 6.6. AGC Principles and Modeling 328 -- 6.7. Other Topics of Interest Related to Load Frequency Control 336 -- 7. VOLTAGE AND REACTIVE POWER CONTROL 340 -- Sandro Corsi and Mircea Eremia -- 7.1. Relationship Between Active and Reactive Powers and Voltage 342 -- 7.2. Equipments for Voltage and Reactive Power Control 347 -- 7.3. Grid Voltage and Reactive Power Control Methods 374.

7.4. Grid Hierarchical Voltage Regulation 399 -- 7.5. Implementation Study of the Secondary Voltage Regulation in Romania 423 -- 7.6. Examples of Hierarchical Voltage Control in the World 429 -- PART II POWER SYSTEM STABILITY AND PROTECTION 451 -- 8. BACKGROUND OF POWER SYSTEM STABILITY 453 -- S.S. (Mani) Venkata, Mircea Eremia, and Lucian Toma -- 8.1. Introduction 453 -- 8.2. Classification of Power Systems Stability 453 -- 8.3. Parallelism Between Voltage Stability and Angular Stability 469 -- 8.4. Importance of Security for Power System Stability 469 -- 9. SMALL-DISTURBANCE ANGLE STABILITY AND ELECTROMECHANICAL OSCILLATION DAMPING 477 -- Roberto Marconato and Alberto Berizzi -- 9.1. Introduction 477 -- 9.2. The Dynamic Matrix 478 -- 9.3. A General Simplified Approach 482 -- 9.4. Major Factors Affecting the Damping of Electromechanical Oscillations 501 -- 9.5. Damping Improvement 546 -- 9.6. Typical Cases of Interarea Or Low-Frequency Electromechanical Oscillations 564 -- 10. TRANSIENT STABILITY 570 -- Nikolai Voropai and Constantin Bulac -- 10.1. General Aspects 570 -- 10.2. Direct Methods for Transient Stability Assessment 572 -- 10.3. Integration Methods for Transient Stability Assessment 603 -- 10.4. Dynamic Equivalents 614 -- 10.5. Transient Stability Assessment of Large Electric Power Systems 638 -- 10.6. Application 645 -- 11. VOLTAGE STABILITY 657 -- Mircea Eremia and Constantin Bulac -- 11.1. Introduction 657 -- 11.2. System Characteristics and Load Modeling 658 -- 11.3. Static Aspects of Voltage Stability 667 -- 11.4. Voltage Instability Mechanisms: Interaction Between Electrical Network, Loads, and Control Devices 674 -- 11.5. Voltage Stability Assessment Methods 688 -- 11.6. Voltage Instability Countermeasures 716 -- 11.7. Application 724 -- 12. POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION 737 -- Klaus-Peter Brand and Ivan De Mesmaeker -- 12.1. Introduction 737 -- 12.2. Summary of IEC 61850 744 -- 12.3. The Protection Chain in Details 746 -- 12.4. Transmission and Distribution Power System Structures 753.

12.5. Properties of the Three-Phase Systems Relevant for Protection 755 -- 12.6. Protection Functions Sorted According to the Objects Protected 759 -- 12.7. From Single Protection Functions to System Protection 773 -- 12.8. Conclusions 780 -- PART III GRID BLACKOUTS AND RESTORATION PROCESS 787 -- 13. MAJOR GRID BLACKOUTS: ANALYSIS, CLASSIFICATION, AND PREVENTION 789 -- Yvon Besanger, Mircea Eremia, and Nikolai Voropai -- 13.1. Introduction 789 -- 13.2. Description of Some Previous Blackouts 792 -- 13.3. Analysis of Blackouts 835 -- 13.4. Economical and Social Effects 847 -- 13.5. Recommendations for Preventing Blackouts 849 -- 13.6. On Some Defense and Restoration Actions 850 -- 13.7. Survivability/vulnerability of Electric Power Systems 856 -- 13.8. Conclusions 860 -- 14. RESTORATION PROCESSES AFTER BLACKOUTS 864 -- Alberto Borghetti, Carlo Alberto Nucci, and Mario Paolone -- 14.1. Introduction 864 -- 14.2. Overview of The Restoration Process 865 -- 14.3. Black-Start-Up Capabilities of Thermal Power Plant: Modeling and Computer Simulations 869 -- 14.4. Description of Computer Simulators 888 -- 14.5. Concluding Remarks 896 -- 15. COMPUTER SIMULATION OF SCALE-BRIDGING TRANSIENTS IN POWER SYSTEMS 900 -- Kai Strunz and Feng Gao -- 15.1. Bridging of Instantaneous and Phasor Signals 901 -- 15.2. Network Modeling 903 -- 15.3. Modeling of Power System Components 909 -- 15.4. Application: Simulation of Blackout 923 -- References 926 -- Index 929.