Power System Software Development : with possible SCADA System Integration

In order for power system operators (such as TRANSCO) to maintain and operatethe transmission grid in a safe, secure and effcient way, automatic tools such asSCADA systems is necessary to meet demand at all times. The main purpose of thisthesis was to develop a software/prototype at the load despatch centre at TRANSCOwith the ability to monitor and communicate with power plants. The software issupposed to work in a real-time electronic market. The power plant operators candeclare their availability and capability parameters of their generating and producingunits to TRANSCO and LDC operators can send load despatch instructions to thepower plants (such as load changes and other ancillary instructions). The prototypealso has a compliance monitoring application that validates unit outputs againstdespatched instructions. If the output is outside a specific interval, a transgressionwarning is sent to the power plant informing them that they should adjust their unitoutput against the target load. If further transgression is continued, the operator atLDC can re-declare the units availability on the power plants behalf and issue a newload despatch instruction to the unit. The re-declared availability level will be valid allthe way back to when the unit issued the last availability declaration.The software was successfully developed and could perform all tasks that it wassupposed to in a satisfactory way. In order to make the development as sufficient andeffective as possible, a "dummy" power plant was created and was used to simulateunit outputs and plant operator behaviour. As the time was too short, the SCADAintegration was never investigated and was left to whom is taken over after this thesishas ended