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ELEN E4511: Power Systems Analysis

Instructor: Javad Lavaei  

Time: Wednesday, 10:10 am-12:40 pm  

Location: MUDD 1024

Office Hours: Wednesday, 2-4 pm

TA: Ramtin Madani, rm3122@columbia.edu

Grading Policy: 10% active participation, 30% homework, 60% course project

Homework: Set 1 ,  Set 2 ,  Set 3 , Set 4, Set 5 (due on Apr 26)

Lecture Notes:

  • Week 1: Overview of Power Grids; Circuits; Complex Power (additional slides)

  • Week 2: No lecture (make-up session to be announced later)

  • Week 3: Three-Phase Networks; Per Phase Analysis; Transmission Lines

  • Week 4:  Voltage Collapse; Transformers; Phase Shifter 

  • Week 5:  Per-Unit Normalization; Power Flow Analysis; Contraction Map

  • Week 6: Optimization for Distribution Networks

  • Week 7: Convex Optimization (Supplemental Material)

  • Week 8: Duality and Optimal Power Flow (Supplemental Material)

  • Week 9: Electricity Market

  • Week 10: Generator Modeling and Control & Stability

  • Week 11: Topics in Smart Grid (Renewable, PMU, FACTS, DGs, Demand Response, Security, etc.)

























































 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Description: One of the grand challenges of this century is the modernization of electrical power networks. This course provides a fundamental understanding of not only the conventional power grid but also the electric grid of the future (known as Smart Grid).  The topics covered in this course include:

o   Modeling of power systems (transmission lines, transformers, relevant power electronic devices, generators, etc.)

o   Architecture of power networks

o   Operation of power systems (study of both steady state and transient behavior)

o   Control of power networks

o   Optimization for power networks

o   Electricity market

o   Smart Grid 

  Main textbook: "Power Systems Analysis" by Arthur R. Bergen and Vijay Vittal (second edition)

 Other references (optional):

o   "Fundamentals of Power System Economics" by Daniel S. Kirschen and Goran Strbac

o   "Applied Optimization: Formulation and Algorithms for Engineering Systems" by Ross Baldick

o   "Convex Optimization" by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe