New Advanced Training Simulator Design for Power System Operations

Abstract

In order to prevent human error, the importance of training and improving the skills of personnel involved in operations and maintenance can never be overly emphasized. First, this paper gives a brief overview of Tohoku Electric Power Company's new Training Center Scheme for 21st Century education strategies. Second, it explains the design concepts of an advanced training simulator for power system operators, which will be installed in the Center in 1990. Conventional simulators used at other electric utilities are capable of training personnel in frequency, load flow and voltage control. However, the most critical operations during periods of emergency and restoration of power supply are switchgear operations in which procedure operators must infer from protective relay information where the disturbance has occurred and how to restore trippcd-out transmission lines by separating disturbed lines or busbars. For this purpose, it is essential to have functions simulating the repercussions of fault phenomena activated by protective relays or breaker operations. This paper describes the most advanced technologies and innovations applied to the design of an epochal training simulator for power system operations.