Community microgrids are set to change the landscape of future energy markets. The technology is being deployed in many cities around globe. However, a wide-scale deployment faces three major issues: initial synchronization with utility grids, slip management during its operation, and mitigation distortions produced by inverter. This paper proposes Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Assisted Inverte...

This paper presents a methodology using Gravitational Search Algorithm for optimal placement of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) in order to achieve complete observability of the power system. The objective of proposed algorithm is to minimize the total number of PMUs at the power system buses, which in turn minimize installation cost of the PMUs. In this algorithm, the searcher agents are colle...

In order to obtain the transient power system measurement information, Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) should be able to collect Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) data in a timely manner. Therefore along with the continual deployment of PMUs in Great Britain (GB) transmission system substations, a high performance communications infrastructure is becoming essential with regard to the establishm...

Event detection and analytic calculations in both Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) and in distribution systems including Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) based microgrid control systems often use the independent components of the phasors (e.g. frequency or Voltage) rather than the vector representation of a phasor. This paper introduces the use of the discrete time complex Fourier Transform ba...

This paper proposes an optimal allocation of phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement model under controlled islanding of power system such that the power network remains observable under controlled islanding condition in addition to normal operation condition. The optimization objective of proposed model is to reduce the number of installed PMUs by using hybrid optimization algorithm. The objec...