Optimum Placement of PMU for Wide Area Measurement Systems

This paper presents identifying the best selection process for selecting the most effective stabilizing signal to improve damping of inter area oscillations in a multimachine power system. Phasor Measurement Units or PMUs are one of he main component of the Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS). The large amount of data collected by PMUs need to be channelized to regional and global data centers where real-time state estimation, and protection, stabilization decisions are made. It is studied in this paper that how different signal selection techniques gives different control loop for damping of a particular inter area mode of oscillations. In spite of these the controller locations were obtained for optimum placement of phasor measurement units for wide area measurement systems. It is resulted from the two area 4 machine system that the HSV based signal selection approach performs excellent in both small and large disturbance for the test system compared to both residue and geometric measure of joint controllability and observability approach. Non-linear simulations are carried out in order to evaluate the performance of different approaches of signal selection under study.