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PDCI Wide-Area Damping Control: PSLF Simulations of the 2017 Test Plan - Light Summer Case

Wilches-Bernal, Felipe; Pierre, Brian J.; Elliott, Ryan T.; Schoenwald, David A.; Byrne, Raymond H.; Neely, Jason C.; Trudnowski, Daniel J.; Donnelly, Matthew K.

To demonstrate and validate the performance of the wide-area damping control system, the project plans to conduct closed-loop tests on the PDCI in spring/summer 2017. A test plan details the open and closed loop tests to be conducted on the PDCI using the wide-area damping control system. To ensure the appropriate level of preparedness, simulations were performed in order to predict and evaluate any possible unsafe operations before hardware experiments are attempted. This report contains the results from these simulations using the power system dynamics software PSLF (Power System Load Flow, trademark of GE). The simulations use the WECC (Western Electricity Coordinating Council) 2016 light summer and heavy summer base cases and the 2014 dual export base case. Because of the large volume of plots, the results were divided into three reports corresponding to the three base cases. This report contains results from the 2016 light summer base case.