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Load distribution recalculated almost every second

On top of wide-area monitoring, Faceplate runs automatic load distribution for the generating stations on Kazakhstan’s national grid. The calculation used to run once a day; now it runs almost every second.

In operation

Isometric model of a connected grid with power plants, wind turbines, transmission lines and substations — National transmission grid, Kazakhstan

≈1 sbetween load-distribution runs, instead of once a day

Nationwideconsumption monitored in real time

WAMS → WACSfrom wide-area monitoring to wide-area control

The ask

KEGOC, the national grid operator, already had a wide-area monitoring system (WAMS). It measures voltage, current, frequency and phase angles at nodes across the country, with synchronised timestamps.

The next step was control: a wide-area control system (WACS) that uses those measurements to act on the grid automatically.

What Faceplate built

An automatic load-distribution project on the Faceplate platform, working within the WAMS structure.

Monitors electricity consumption across the country continuously
Calculates the best load for each generating station in real time
Recalculates almost every second; the same task used to be done once a day from a daily report

Why it matters

Dispatchers see the state of the power system as it is now, not as it was in yesterday’s report. Generation follows consumption more closely, which lowers the risk of accidents and makes room for more variable renewable generation.

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