Power System Operation and Analysis (PSOA)
Power System Operation and Analysis – PSOA
The main research areas of the group are related to the planning, operation, control and analysis of power systems, with applications in smart grids, transmission and distribution grids, microgrids and HVDC systems. Thematic focus includes, but is not limited to, the following:
• Analytical and computational methods for power system analysis in steady-state, transient and dynamic conditions
• System operation, dynamics, stability, and inverter-based resources
• Wide area monitoring and control, application of PMUs
• Reliability and risk-based planning and operation
• System flexibility studies and resilience
• Digital power system protection, control, and cyber-security
• Coordinated control schemes to enhance power transmission capabilities
• Active distribution system planning and operation (including reliability and asset management)
• Grid integration of renewable energy (wind, hydro and PV), including control of offshore HVDC grids
• Design, analysis and integration of microgrids
Research Projects
Projects from EU (Horizon 2020), Research Council of Norway (NFR) & Misc. Funding:
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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SecurEL is a Centre of Enviromentfriendly Energy Research, facilitation a secure, resilient, and sustainable electricity distribution grid that ensures both the security of electricity supply and a path to a net-zero-emission society. SecurEL aims to develop new knowledge addressing research challenges arising for accelerated electrification and increased use of existing grid. |
NFR 2025– 2032 |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
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The overall objective of the project is to establish the knowledge basis and methodologies necessary for developing a socio-economically profitable and robust coupled offshore and onshore power grid |
NFR 2023– 2027 |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
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The project aims to look at descriptions of future energy systems and expected threat scenarios related to these, so as to develop system designs and resilience criteria for different types of critical events. |
NordGrid 2022– 2025 |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
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The project addresses new knowledge and innovative methods within hydropower technology and voltage regulation to optimize the interplay between power producers and grid owners through coordinated control actions. |
NFR 2021– 2025 |
Kjetil Uhlen |
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Our vision is that offshore wind farms connected to an offshore grid will provide a large share of the energy supply in Europe to reach climate targets. |
NFR 2021– 2024 |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
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With ZeroKyst, we will strengthen Norwegian value creation and export through green growth. The project will demonstrate that both new and existing vessels in the seafood industry can be emission free and contribute to decreasing emissions from fishery and aquaculture vessels by 50% before 2030 |
Green Platform Initiative |
Irina Oleinikova |
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The project aims to develop methods and algorithms for early detection of critical operating situations, with the end goal of providing improved and coordinated decision support to system operators. |
NFR 2020– 2024 |
Kjetil Uhlen |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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The objective of this project is to form a Nordic-Baltic cooperation and simulation platform for information exchange and system analysis to increase the knowledge on future power system development and control |
NordGrid 2020– 2024 |
Irina Oleinikova |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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| VulPro |
The project aims to bridge the knowledge gap associated with the lack of consistency between risk analysis carried out for asset management purposes and that for system development purposes |
NFR |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
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The project is intended to build the foundation for the long-term goal of enabling fully automatically activated and deactivated system protection schemes to provide the highest possible reliability and capacity utilization of the Norwegian power grid. |
NFR |
Irina Oleinikova |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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| RaPid |
The primary objective of the project is to develop a methodology for the rapid identification of operational strategies including preventive, corrective and restorative actions that ensures transmission grid resilience |
NFR |
Vijay Venu Vadlamudi |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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| EarlyWarn |
Big data analytics using PMU and fault recorder data for early warning and situational awareness |
NFR |
Kjetil Uhlen |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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Planning and operation of microgrid |
NFR |
Kjetil Uhlen |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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| SPARC |
SynchroPhasor-based automatic real-time control |
NFR |
Kjetil Uhlen |
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SPANDEX
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Synchrophasor/PMU Application Integration Data Exchange |
NFR |
Kjetil Uhlen |
| Abbreviation | Project | Framework | Contact |
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| OPERAGRID |
Monitoring, protection and control based on PMU measurements –Focus on signal processing and system identification |
NFR |
Kjetil Uhlen |
Collaboration within NTNU:
- Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (IE)
Infrastructure
The PSOA research group has access to a broad spectrum of advanced laboratories and scientific equipment:
- Computational Laboratory
- Electric Circuits Laboratory
- Smartgrid Laboratory
Affiliation with Research Centres at NTNU
Centres for Environmental-Friendly Energy Research:
Useful External Links
- NASPI
- GARPUR
- OpenAIRE
- Strategic Energy Technologies Information System (SETIS)
- IEEE Power and Energy Society
- European Network of Transmission System Operators
