INDEX

accipiency, 634 capacitor (or condenser), 4, 358,

additional signals, 591, 667, 672 493
angle ceiling, 499
firing, 421 voltages, 517
margin, 424 characteristic
overlapping, 421 equation, 690
armature reaction, 294 roots, 690
armature reaction coefficient, 323 compensation, 36
asynchronous machine, 442, 459 series, 487, 604
attenuation constant, 393 compensator, 4
automatic generation control, 243 static, 493, 534, 601, 604
autonomy, 267, 269, 276 synchronous, 493, 580, 594
autotransformer, 373 compound, 517
axis condenser, see capacitor
direct, 292 contingency analysis, 69
quadrature, 292 control
f/P (frequency and active power), 10,
backswing, 348 11, 173
Bode v/Q (voltage and reactive power), 11,
criterion, 698 486
diagrams, 693 coordinated, 225
boiler following mode, 225 emergency, 277
braking coefficients, 669 primary, 225, 513
branch secondary, 163, 237, 520
series, 37 tertiary, 162
shunt, 37 converter, 417, 419, 429

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cost facts, 4
for startup and/or shutdown, 125, fast reclosure, 615
153 fast-valving, 279, 617
generation, 71, 75, 125 Ferranti effect, 400, 406
incremental, at an area node, 135, filter, 417, 418, 419, 610
139 filtering, 7, 488
incremental, at generation, 79 firing command, 428
incremental, at load, 89, 139 flicker, 9
specific, 127 frequency
counter-excitation, 334 at any operating condition,
687
damping bias, 223
factor, 692 critical, 693
windings, 319, 579 cutoff, 698
diagnosis, 30, 163, 278, 281 mean, 630
direct current link, 4, 235, 417 network, 5
dispatcher, 237 resonance, 692
dispatching, 58, 247
gate governing (or valve positioning)
active, 75, 161
system, 174, 176, 194,
over time, 100
213
reactive, 75, 161
generation, 3
distribution, 4, 30, 34
assigned, 148
dynamic order, 688
hydro, 160
thermal, 160
economic optimization, 77, 100
economy, 8 harmonic, 8, 457, 537
electrical center, 25, 611 homopolar variable, 681
electrical distance, 652 hydraulic inflows, 141
emergency, 29, 277
emf impedance
behind the transient reactance, 315 characteristic, 385
motional, 310 fault, 464
pendular, 316 wave, 386
synchronous, 314 inductor, 356
transformer, 309 smoothing, 419, 429
transient, 314 inertance, 199
equal area criterion, 24, 612 inertia
error center of, 657
exported energy, 270 coefficient, 175, 248
network, 261 infinite power network, 563
phase, 270 instability
excitance, 634 aperiodic-type, 575, 601
excitation dynamic, 26
rotating, 513, 514 frequency, 18
static, 513, 516 oscillatory-type, 589, 601
transverse, 317 static, 26
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transient, 26 maintenance, 144

voltage, 18, 527, 542 margin
interconnections, 4, 12, 132, 259 of current, 426
phase, 698
level matrix
of the secondary regulation, 237 admittance, 40
limit branch admittance, 38
active power, 56 connection, 38
active power transmissibility, 18 impedance, 42
admissibility, 12, 57 minimum-phase function, 692
reactive power, 57, 528, model
543 area, multiarea, 651
voltage supportability, 17 direct current, 50
line of modal type, 661
alternating current (ac), 381 mode
nondissipative, 385 aperiodic, 691
nondistorting, 385 oscillatory, 692
load motion
balancing of mean, 631, 665
on the three phases, 490 relative, 624, 630, 634, 641, 665
composite, 441
node
conform, 86, 134
area, 134
demands, 140
boundary, 36, 57
electromechanical, 188
generation, 35, 56
equivalent, 35, 56, 455
internal, 37
nonlinear, 440, 529, 543
load, 36, 56
sharing, 75, 230, 248
pilot, 521
single, 439
P Q, 61
static, 188
P v, 61
load-flow, 58
reactive compensation, 36, 57
decoupled, 66
slack, 61, 67
fast decoupled, 66
stronger, 465
nonlimited, 59
terminal, 36
load-rejection, 30
noninteraction, 274, 276, 704
load-shedding, 30, 278
Nyquist
load-skipping, 279
criterion, 697
long-term dynamics, 658
diagram, 693
loss
formula, 87
office
active power, 53, 74, 76
central dispatching, 163
Lyapunov function, 24, 642
centralized coordination, 132
peripheral, 163
magnetic saturation, 321, 338, opening
370, 445 single-phase, 461, 473, 479, 480
in the rotor, 326 three-phase, 461, 465
in the stator teeth, 322 two-phase, 461, 474, 480
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operation protection, 13, 458, 612, 615

at constant slip, 338 pump-storage, 122, 157,
equilibrium, 5 595
of the asynchronous machine, 447
of the synchronous machine, 331
quality of operation, 8
nonexistence of the equilibrium, 14
synchronous, 5
oscillation reactance
electromechanical, 19, 575, 631, 667 direct, quadrature
damping of the electromechanical, 25, subtransient, 319
589, 591 synchronous, 306, 319
over- and underexcitation limiters, transient, 306, 319
517 homopolar, 306
negative-sequence, 345
Potier, 327
Parks
reactor, 4, 493
transformation, 680
controlled, 536
vector, 680
saturated, 534
participation factor, 80, 248
redispatching, 93, 98
penalty factor, 89
per unit, 299, 302, 336, 370 redistribution coefficient
perturbation branch-to-branch, of the active power
multiple, 23, 461 flow, 53, 99
nonsymmetrical, 461, 469 node-to-node, of the injected active
structural, 253 power, 97
symmetrical, 461 reflection time, 203
phase constant, 393, 487 regulating energy
phase-shifters, 39 permanent, 179, 184
phasor, 307, 676 transient, 180
phenomena (predominantly electrical, regulation
predominantly mechanical, strictly current, 433
electrochemical), 33 current (or power), 432
Potier construction, 325 energy, 11
power margin angle, 432
characteristic, 402, 487 phase, 11, 47
exchange, 147, 160 speed, 173, 584, 664
exchanged, 132, 159 regulator
exported, 259 power, 223
rotating, 6 primary frequency, 193
short-circuit, 465 secondary, 237
stimulation, 278 with tachoaccelerometer, 207
power factor correction, 489 with transient feedback, 207
propagation reserve
function, 385 cold, 145, 152
propagation speed energy, 147
in a line, 386 quick, 29, 145, 152
in a penstock, 202 spinning, 6, 96, 151, 160
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resistor, 353 start-up time, 176, 301

braking, 279, 617 state, 689
preinsertion, 464 state estimation, 28, 161
resonance static gain, 692
electromechanical, 629 subnetwork
in a line, 409 generation-load, 135, 139
in a penstock, 202 interconnection, 136, 139
subsynchronous, 607, 608, 610 subtransmission, 4, 30, 35
torsional, 329, 595, 610 symmetrical components, 470, 490, 678
response synchronism, 19, 25, 611, 614, 615
forced, 688 synchronizing
free, 688 actions, 19
frequency, 692 coefficients, 625, 669
restoration of the configuration, 28 synchronous machine, 289, 458, 562
Routh-Hurwitz criterion, 690
technical minimum, 57
scheduling teletransmission, 162
long-term, 142, 144 Thoma condition, 204
medium-term, 142, 147 time constant, 691
operational, of thermal plants, 122, 152 of the asynchronous machine:
previsional, 10, 139, 163 transient (open-circuit, short-circuit),
real-time, 10, 161 450
short-term, 142, 159 of the reheater, 217
secondary regulating power band, 249 of the synchronous machine:
security, 8, 160 armature, 349
conditioned, 648 field, 301
quasistatic, 658 subtransient (open-circuit, short-circuit;
static, 70, 95 direct, quadrature), 319
total, 648 transient (open-circuit, short-circuit;
self-excitation, 505 direct, quadrature), 306, 319
sensitivity coefficient torque
of characteristic roots, 671, 704
electromagnetic, 296, 297, 445
to an injection shifting, 52
reluctance, 296
short-circuit
transfer
ratio, 336, 337
function, 689
single-phase, 461, 474, 480, 481
matrix, 690
three-phase, 464, 465, 469
Two-phase isolated, 461, 475, 481 transformer, 37, 367
Two-phase to earth, 461, 475, 481 regulating, 4, 41, 46, 48, 378
solid rotor, 320 tap-changing, 4, 493, 522, 601, 603
speed droop transmission, 3
permanent, 180, 184, 232, 248
transient, 180, 248 unavailability, 139, 140
stability unidirectional component, 348, 349, 469,
asymptotic, 690 482
region, 644 uniformity of the response of , 273
weak, 690 unit commitment, 147
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valve positioning system, see gate wavelength, 388, 394

governing system, 174, 176, waves
194, 213 incident, 389
voltage support, 9, 527, 547, 604 reflected, 389
refracted, 389
water traveling(direct, inverse),
hammer number, 203 388
inertia time, 199 working point
storage, 145, 148 steady-state, 34