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Presentations and Cases

Professor Janusz W. Bialek of the University of Edinburgh, UK has developed a European system model in PowerWorld Simulator to benchmark and analyze cross-border trades. The model is referenced in the paper: 

Q. Zhou, J.W. Bialek; "Approximate Model of European Interconnected System as a Benchmark System to Study Effects of Cross-Border Trades", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2005.

Follow this link for Jamie Weber's PSERC Presentation on the Internet on November 7, 2000

Tom Overbye's Slide Show from InfoVis 2000 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The following cases were used to generate their respective figures in the July 2000 article in Regulation magazine entitled: "Competition Requires Transmission Capacity:  The Case of the U.S. Northeast".  All files in the below list are *.zip files containing PowerWorld Binary (*.pwb) and PowerWorld Display (*.pwd) files.  These cases may be viewed using PowerWorld Viewer, which is available here for free download.  PowerWorld Simulator OPF, which was used to generate the results, has a 12-bus demo version on this site for free download as well.

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Small sample cases and slides from Edison Electric Institute (EEI) class by Tom Overbye, March 2000.

Acutal PJM Locational Marginal Price Data as Shown in PowerWorld Simulator Contour Plot, several hours on July 19, 1999 by PowerWorld Corporation (several slides, 717 kB).

Self-playing Movie of Actual PJM LMPs, All day on August 20, 1999 by PowerWorld Corporation.  (1.6 MB compressed zip file. We recommend running the unzipped 32 MB movie from a local hard drive.)

PowerWorld Simulator OPF, by Tom Overbye, presented at PowerWorld Simulator Training Course in October, 1999.  Includes slides of calculated LMPs for New York and New England.

Market Power Evaluation in Power Systems with Congestion, by Tom Overbye, presented at 1999 IEEE Summer Meeting.

How the Power Grid Behaves, by Tom Overbye, presented at 1999 April AAPG Meeting.

Working with Hard-To-Solve Power Flow Cases, by James Weber, presented at PowerWorld Users Group Meetings, 2004.

Documents and Papers of Interest

Final Report on the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) EHV Overlay Project
Prepared for SPP by Infrasource Technology and PowerWorld Corporation. June 27, 2007.
News Release.

Advanced Sensitivity Analysis for Long-Range Transmission Expansion Planning
Scott R. Dahman, Donald J. Morrow, Keith Tynes, James D. Weber; p. 166, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008).

Emissions Impact Assessment of the Sustainable Energy Plan for Illinois
Shaw Environmental (with contributions from PowerWorld Corporation). July 24, 2007. Prepared for U.S. Department of Energy and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Large-Scale Integration of Wind Generation Including Network Temporal Security Analysis; Grijalva, S.; Dahman, S.R.; Patten, K.J.; Visnesky, A.M.; IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2007 Page(s) 181 - 188. (Requires IEEE Xplore Account for Full Article)

Intermittency Analysis Project (IAP): Final Report
Porter, K. and Intermittency Analysis Project Team (including Davis Power Consultants and PowerWorld Corporation). 2007. Intermittency Analysis Project: Summary of Final Results. California Energy Commission, PIER Research Development & Demonstration Program. CEC-500-2007-081.
CEC IAP Resource Page
Workshop Presentation, February 13, 2007.

Strategic Value Analysis for Integrating Renewable Technologies in Meeting Target Renewable Penetration
Davis Power Consultants, PowerWorld Corporation, and Anthony Engineering. June 2005. Supporting Publication for 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR), California Energy Commission, PIER Research Development & Demonstration Program. CEC-500-2005-106.
Full 2005 IEPR

Q. Zhou, J.W. Bialek; "Approximate Model of European Interconnected System as a Benchmark System to Study Effects of Cross-Border Trades", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2005.

T.J. Overbye, "Power System Simulation: Understanding Small- and Large-System Operations," IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol 2, No 1, January/February 2004.

R. Klump, D. Schooley, T. Overbye, "An Advanced Visualization Platform for Real-Time Simulations." 14th Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), Sevilla, Spain, June 2002.

T.J. Overbye, D. R. Hale, T. Leckey, J.D. Weber, "Assessment of Transmission Constraint Costs: Northeast U.S. Case Study" submitted for publication to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems on September 30, 1999.

J.D. Weber, "Individual welfare maximization in electricity markets including consumer and full transmission system modeling," Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 1999.

J.D. Weber, "Implementation of a Newton-based optimal power flow into a power system simulation environment," M.S. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  January 1997

K.J. Patten, "Evaluating Market Power in Congested Power Systems," M.S. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 1998

T.J. Overbye, J. D. Weber, "Visualizing the Grid," IEEE Spectrum, February 2001 (requires IEEE member login to view). View Images and JAVA animations created for the article.