EEE 471/591: Power System Analysis

Spring 2019 Project #1 (Power Flow)

Due on Mar 31 (Sunday), 2019 at 11:59 PM (MST)

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Project 1 (100 Points)

You’ve just been hired as a new power engineer with Kyle and Weber Wind (KWW), one of the country’s leading wind energy developers. KWW has identified the rolling hills to the northwest of the Metropolis urban area as an ideal location for a new 200 MW wind farm. The local utility, Metropolis Light and Power (MLP), seems amenable to this new generation development taking place within their service territory. However, they are also quite adamant that any of the costs associated with transmission system upgrades necessary to site this new generation be funded by KWW. Therefore, your supervisor at KWW has requested that you do a preliminary transmission planning assessment to determine the least cost design.

Hence, your job is to make recommendations on the least cost design for the construction of new lines and transformers to ensure that the transmission system in the MLP system is adequate for any base case or first contingency loading situation when the KWW wind farm is installed and operating at its maximum output of 200 MW. Since the wind farm will be built with Type 3 DFAG wind turbines, you can model the wind farm in the power flow as a single, equivalent traditional PV bus generator with an output of 200 MW, a voltage setpoint of 1.05 per unit, and with reactive power limits of 100 Mvar. In keeping with KWW tradition, the wind interconnection point will be at 69 kV, and for reliability purposes your supervisor requests that there be two separate feeds into the interconnection substation.