PMU Location Determination in a Hybrid PMU-SCADA System

The accurate real-time state estimation is needed to perform real-time monitoring and control. However, the current power system uses SCADA technology as a tool for monitoring and control. SCADA existing measurement device has a few disadvantages: low accuracy, low sampling rate in measuring the measurements data, and asynchronous measurements between instrument. Due to those disadvantages, state estimation resulted has low accuracy, and not in real-time. These disadvantages can be minimized by installing several phasor measurement unit (PMU). IEEE-30 bus test system is applied to simulate the proposed technique. The result shows, the required PMU should be installed in power system that already has 116 conventional SCADA measurements is 6. The location of these PMUs are in buses 2, 10, 12, 15, 25, and 27. That result is achieved in 320 iteration of genetic algorithm (GA). In this paper, mean absolute error (MAE) is used to asses the state estimation accuracy. The value of $\overline {MAE} $ system with PMU is 7.20718X10−6. While, the value of $\overline {MAE} $ system without PMU is 0.110162054.