Real Consequences Follow Imaginary Power Deficiencies
Ninety percent of major electric power system disturbances in recent years include some aspects of voltage collapse.
This seminar will highlight the importance of reactive power in supporting system voltage. It will review the relationship of voltage support to angular or dynamic stability, and the impact of low reactive reserves in precipitating or aggravating major disturbances. The seminar will then discuss the specific problems that arose in five major disturbances, one in Quebec 1989, two in the WECC in 1996, the NE USA and Canada blackout in 2003 and the South Sweden blackout in 2003. We will also present a rare demonstration of an actual voltage collapse demonstrating a classic PV curve. This information was captured from a relay event record during a disturbance in Peru in October 2001.
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- Date: 11 Mar 2025
- Time: 03:00 PM to 04:10 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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- Co-sponsored by University of California Riverside
- Starts 04 March 2025 10:35 AM
- Ends 11 March 2025 04:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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Mr. CHARLES F. HENVILLE
Mr. CHARLES F. HENVILLE (President, Henville Consulting Inc.,)
Charles Henville is a native of the island of St. Kitts in the West Indies. His early education was in Jamaica, and he later graduated from the University of Cambridge in England in 1969. He has also received a Master of Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia in 2000.
After a thirty-year career with BC Hydro in Canada, he retired in 2005 from the position of principal engineer in protection planning. Since 1977, he has been responsible for applying and setting protection systems for generation, transmission and distribution equipment with voltages ranging from 600 V to 500 kV. He now runs his own consulting company in power system protection. He is well recognized in the IEEE, being a Fellow grade member, a past chairman of the Power Systems Relaying Committee, and a distinguished lecturer of the Power and Energy Society.
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