DCOPF contingency analysis including phase shifting transformers

What is it about?

This work deals with a new formulation for the Direct Current Optimal Power Flow (DCOPF) including the corrective actions related to the phase shifting transformers. The formulation is based on the outage of generators and/or branches modelled as fictitious injections of active power. The inclusion of the sensitivities of the phase shifting transformer with respect to the injected powers is one of the novelties of this paper. By including the fictitious injections in the optimization problem, the injections are adjusted to the post-contingency state as a consequence of the corrective actions carried out by the DCOPF to bring the system back to its normal state. Consequently, when the analysis of contingencies is performed, the classical topological analysis and the subsequent analyses are avoided with this approach. The DCOPF includes as corrective control variables the rescheduling of active power generations, phase shifting transformers and, if required, permitted load shedding. The IEEE-RTS of 24 buses is used as benchmark network to assess the properties of the proposed approach.

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Why is it important?

The novelty of this work stems from the inclusion in the optimization problem of actions on Phase Shifting Transformers and of fictitious injections modelling contingencies. So, the DC COPF proposed directly adjusts these fictitious injections to the post-contingency state as a consequence of the corrective actions carried out to bring the system back to its normal state.

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