TY - GEN
T1 - Generating a PSS™NETOMAC model of the German Transmission Grid from Google Earth and visualizing load flow results
AU - Altschäffl, Sascha
AU - Witzmann, Rolf
AU - Ahndorf, Thomas
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In order to create a model of the German Transmission Grid, it is necessary to get information of the length of the transmission lines. In Germany this data is not provided by the transmission system operators. So a different way of generating these informations has to be found. With the freeware tool Google Earth it is possible to identify the tracks of the transmission lines. In combination with the information of an official map of the German Transmission Grid it is possible to mark all transmission lines of the 380/220 kV voltage level in Google Earth. Furthermore, the positions of transformers and generators can be found. After taking this information to MATLAB, lists of transmission lines, transformers, generators and loads are generated. These lists can be completed with the missing electrical parameters in Microsoft Excel (MS Excel). Finally the lists are imported in MATLAB again and a PSS™NETOMAC-file is generated. Using this file with PSS™NETOMAC, load flow calculations can be performed. To get an overview of the load flow results, a way to visualize node voltages and power flows is presented.
AB - In order to create a model of the German Transmission Grid, it is necessary to get information of the length of the transmission lines. In Germany this data is not provided by the transmission system operators. So a different way of generating these informations has to be found. With the freeware tool Google Earth it is possible to identify the tracks of the transmission lines. In combination with the information of an official map of the German Transmission Grid it is possible to mark all transmission lines of the 380/220 kV voltage level in Google Earth. Furthermore, the positions of transformers and generators can be found. After taking this information to MATLAB, lists of transmission lines, transformers, generators and loads are generated. These lists can be completed with the missing electrical parameters in Microsoft Excel (MS Excel). Finally the lists are imported in MATLAB again and a PSS™NETOMAC-file is generated. Using this file with PSS™NETOMAC, load flow calculations can be performed. To get an overview of the load flow results, a way to visualize node voltages and power flows is presented.
KW - Google Earth
KW - MATLAB
KW - PSS™NETOMAC
KW - transmission network
KW - visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905002308&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ENERGYCON.2014.6850488
DO - 10.1109/ENERGYCON.2014.6850488
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905002308
SN - 9781479924493
T3 - ENERGYCON 2014 - IEEE International Energy Conference
SP - 603
EP - 609
BT - ENERGYCON 2014 - IEEE International Energy Conference
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Energy Conference, ENERGYCON 2014
Y2 - 13 May 2014 through 16 May 2014
ER -