Investigation of the Usefulness of the PowerWorld Simulator Program Developed by “Glover, Overbye & Sarma” in the Solution of Power System Problems

The objective of this project is to investigate the usefulness of the power system simulator PowerWorld program developed by “Glover, Overbye &Sarma”. The results obtained from the power simulator program were presented for different case studies. The following power system network was used in this study. The system consists from 6 buses. Area 1 includes bus 1-5 while Bus 6 will be part of Area 1 in some case studies, or will form separate area 2 in other case studies for comparison purpose. Note that the Available Transfer Capability (ATC) analysis add-on which determines the maximum MW transfer possible between two parts of a power system without violating any limits, and the voltage adequacy and stability tool (VAST) add-on that can solve multiple power flow solutions in order to generate a PV curve for a particular transfer or a QV curve at a given bus, was not studied here because we don’t have yet VAST add-on and the ATC add-on packages.