Grant: Idea to Innovation

The objective of this proposal is to develop a prototype of a comprehensive assessment tool for power system analysis under Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) which is also referred to as solar geomagnetic storm. Due to the recently developed international standards and operation guidelines, all the high voltage power systems should perform the GMD impacts assessment on their systems and provide the evidences showing that their systems are not vulnerable to the detrimental effects of GMD, and in the case of any identified problems, they need to provide an effective solution that can preserve the reliability and integrity of the interconnected power system during the GMD. Such standard mandates require advanced methods and solution techniques for power system analysis which are not either available or accurate enough to address the raised concerns. As a result, the existing computation tools are in their infancy stage and can only cover some basic aspects of the entire system solution. Therefore, a novel comprehensive tool to accurately cover various aspects of the GMD impacts on power systems is highly demanding in power industry, and power utilities have shown their interests to purchase and use such a tool if developed.The proposed computation tool provides a complete solution for power system GMD impact assessment. The developed tool has the capability of running in real-time and offline modes. Thus, it can be employed in power system control rooms for real-time monitoring and control of the grid under the GMD conditions and as an offline simulation tool for planning and design of the resilient power system with immunity to the GMD impacts.