Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector
Prof. Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
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More resources on Power Systems
Research Roadmap on Grid-Forming Inverters
NREL technical report defining grid-forming inverter control and its role in grids dominated by inverter-based resources. Covers device and system-level control approaches, stability under low system strength, modelling and validation needs, and the open research questions.
MATPOWER
Open-source MATLAB and Octave package for steady-state power system simulation: power flow, continuation power flow, optimal power flow, and unit commitment scheduling, shipped with standard IEEE test cases and a manual documenting the underlying mathematical formulations. Converts the theory into something a learner can actually run: solve a load flow on the IEEE 30-bus case and watch the Newton-Raphson iterations converge. The user manual doubles as a rigorous derivation of the power flow and OPF formulations.
Power System Stability and Control (2nd ed.)
The reference work on power system stability: synchronous machine and excitation modelling, small-signal and transient stability, voltage and frequency stability, and system control. The 2022 second edition adds converter-interfaced generation, HVDC, wind, and the revised stability classification.
Power System Analysis
The standard undergraduate power systems analysis text, covering per-unit calculations, transmission line modelling, admittance and impedance matrices, Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson power flow, symmetrical components, balanced and unbalanced fault analysis, economic dispatch, and an introduction to transient stability.
Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction (2nd ed.)
A largely non-mathematical account of how the grid actually works: circuits, complex power, three-phase, transmission and distribution equipment, generation, protection, and system operation. The 2024 second edition adds inverter-based resources, storage, and distributed generation.
Power System Analysis (NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur)
Full video lecture series from IIT Kharagpur covering per-unit systems, transmission line parameters and modelling, transformer models, Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson load flow, short-circuit analysis, symmetrical components, unbalanced fault analysis, and transient stability.