Risk Assessment of Main Electrical Connection in Substation With Regional Grid Safety Constraints

Abstract

To ensure the safe and stable operation of the power grid, it is necessary to carry out the risk assessment of the main electrical connection in the substation. In traditional methods, the influences of the regional power grid on the main electrical connection scheme are ignored. This paper aims to propose a new method of main electrical connection risk assessment considering the regional grid safety constraints. Firstly, the traditional risk indexes are modified by considering the load shedding in the regional grid, and safety constraints indexes are built by using severity functions. Secondly, the analytic method is adopted to analyze the faults in the substation and determine the consequences, and the external equivalent of the substation is conducted. Finally, the regional grid’s power flow and optimal scheduling are calculated, and the risk assessment results are obtained. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the IEEE-RTBS system and a real 220kV substation and its adjacent grid are taken for analysis. The results show that compared with the traditional method, the risk indexes obtained by the proposed method are more conservative, and the weakness of the main electrical connection under maintenance conditions can be obtained, which proves the proposed method’s feasibility and effectiveness.

Keywords

• Main electrical connection
• risk assessment
• power grid safety constraints
• optimal power flow