Justification of the need to improve emergency control systems for preventing disturbances of voltage stability in power systems

   This article is aimed at justifying the need to modernize the existing systems that ensure voltage stability in the Unified Power System of Russia under the conditions of its permanent development, structural complication and active implementation of distributed generation. To this end, an analysis of the existing systems of emergency control used in the Unified Power System of Russia was conducted by considering their efficiency during major system accidents, including those in 2005 and 2017. In addition, specific features of operating power system facilities in the northern part of the Irkutsk Oblast were investigated from the standpoint of voltage stability. The conducted analysis of the operation of emergency control systems in the context of system accidents, including possible incorrect actions, identified their following disadvantages: insufficient fault tolerance, weak adaptability to emergency disturbances (including abnormal situations), as well as a lack of coordination between local devices and the discreteness of regulation. These shortcomings can be eliminated by introducing intelligent automation systems based on artificial neural networks and machine learning, as well as high-performance multi-agent systems into the structure of the emergency management of the Unified Power System of Russia. The results obtained indicate the need to modernize the existing voltage stability systems operated in the Unified Power System of Russia, both their software and hardware components. The proposed implementation of intelligent systems is expected to improve the existing systems at the same time as maintaining the current effective hierarchical principles of emergency management.

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