Preliminary synchronized phasor data analysis of disturbance events in the US Eastern Interconnection

Abstract

This paper presents analysis results of synchronized phasor data from 10 disturbance events recorded in the US Eastern Interconnection (EI). The phasor data covers a wide region in the EI, allowing for the study of disturbance propagation, interarea modes, and oscillations in voltages and currents. The analysis is not straightforward because the EI is a meshed system with adequate interarea mode damping. Disturbances involving tripping a single large generator unit produce very short interarea swing responses. Islanding events involving regions at the perimeter, however, provide more prominent responses for analysis.