SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER

Wide Area Measurements for Power System Smart Monitoring and Control

Dr. Masayuki Watanabe
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Abstract

WAMS (Wide Area Measurement System) with PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units) is the key technology for monitoring, state estimation, system protections and control of widely spread power systems. A direct, more precise and accurate monitoring can be achieved by the technique of phasor measurements of the voltage phasors synchronized by time information of GPS (Global Positioning System). Proper grasp of the present state with flexible wide area control and smart operation should become key issues to keep the power system stability in the complicated grid with the growing penetration of distributed generation and renewable energy. The scope of the session is in the application of WAMS for monitoring, protection, and control of power systems.
Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to the session chair via email to watanabe@ele.kyutech.ac.jp by December 15, 2011

Biography of the Special Session Organizer

Dr. Masayuki Watanabe received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 2001, 2002, and 2004, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interest is in the area of analysis of power systems.