Patent ID: 7787995

Claim:
A method for controlling an operation of an electrical power network, comprising: representing an allowable control performance standard of an electrical power network over a predetermined time period as a probability expression comprising a historical term for elapsed time of the predetermined time period, a future term for remaining time of the predetermined time period, and an electrical power network operating condition value; determining a value of the historical term responsive to historical operating parameters; calculating a network clock-minute ACE target value for the remaining time according to the probability expression, the value of the historical term, and the remaining time and using a historical value for the electrical power network operating condition value; determining an instantaneous performance value of the electrical power network; calculating a deviation ratio between the performance target value and the clock-minute ACE instantaneous value for a monitoring interval; calculating a sum of respective deviations between the performance target value and the clock-minute ACE instantaneous value for a plurality of monitoring intervals; calculating a deviation ratio of the sum of respective deviations and a number of the plurality of monitoring intervals; and using the performance target value for controlling the electrical power network to satisfy the control performance standard.