Simscape Power Systems Benchmarks for Education and Research in Power Grid Dynamics and Control

Abstract

This paper introduces a MATLAB/Simulink package including two well-known power system benchmarks developed in Simscape Power Systems. The simulation models can be employed for base-lining and for testing new control techniques and protection algorithms for renewable and microgrids integration studies. Different simulation scenarios including time-domain and small-signal analysis are presented to support the correctness of the implementation. Furthermore, we present a frequency measurement (phasor) block to measure the frequency in a Simscape Power Systems model running in phasor mode. The models are available in MATLAB-Central file exchange for power system education and research worldwide.