Patent ID: 7966101

Claim:
A method for controlling the stability of an electric power system in real time on the basis of data collected at a plurality of points over a wide area, the method comprising the steps of: detecting, at each of the plurality of points in the wide area, the phase of voltage at a power supply outlet used by a consumer; transmitting data including the phase information and time information to a data server via a network; causing a data server to observe, with one end of the system used as a phase angle reference, phase differences at the other end and at the center of the system; extracting an inter-system fluctuation component from an obtained fluctuation, and constructing an expanded combined vibration model for data sets obtained through first-order and second-order differentiations of the component, the expanded combined vibration model being obtained by expanding a combined vibration model which represents a first mode in which fluctuations of opposite phases occur at the opposite ends of the system and a second mode in which fluctuations occur at the opposite ends of the system in phase opposite to that of a fluctuation occurring at the center of the system by use of the obtained phase difference information, the expansion being performed to include a known model of a PSS (Power System Stabilizer) provided for a generator of interest; and obtaining time-series data regarding the state variables of the PSS at the time of construction of the expanded combined vibration model, and determining PSS parameters directly therefrom by use of the expanded combined vibration model, whereby stabilization of the dominant modes is achieved.