Call for papers: special issue on online voltage stability assessments and enhancement

Over the past 40 years, more than 30 major blackouts worldwide were related to voltage instability and collapse. Among them, at least 13 voltage-related blackouts happened in the USA. The online voltage stability assessment (VSA) system is designed to provide system operators with critical information for secure operations of power grids. There are significant engineering and financial benefits to be expected from online VSA. First, one may be able to operate a power system with operating margins reduced by a factor of 10 or more if the voltage stability assessment is based on the actual system configuration and operating conditions instead of assumed worst case conditions, as is done in off-line studies. A second benefit is that the online analysis can be reduced to those cases relevant to actual operating conditions, thereby obtaining more accurate operating margins and allowing more power transfer. Several practical systems have been developed for online VSA, and some of them have enhancement capabilities. Because of the emerging smart grid environment where the distributed (renewable) generation and demand responses introduce much more uncertainty into the power system real-time operations, the online VSA system is becoming a critical tool for smart grid operations.

European Transactions on Electrical Power (ETEP) plans to publish a special issue on online voltage stability assessments and enhancement (VSA&E). The special issue will cover state-of-the-art developments in online VSA&E including, but not limited to, the following:

• Modeling aspects of online VSA&E
• Data issues of online VSA&E
• Online voltage security assessment methodology
• Online voltage security enhancement methodology
• Online VSA&E design, installation, and field application
• Online VSA&E and power market
• Online VSA&E in support of renewable energy integration
• PMU-assisted online VSA&E
• VSA&E in distribution systems with renewable energies

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Authors are requested to submit their articles by March 30, 2012. Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the Author Guidelines found on the journal website at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/etep. Articles must be submitted via the ETEP Online Submission site at the above journal homepage, where you will need to

1. Create an ETEP author account in the Manuscript Central if you do not have one
2. Manuscript Type: Select “Special issue article.”
3. Special Issue: Select “Yes.”
4. Special Issue Information: Input the title “Online VSA&E.”