Situational awareness of grid using wide area monitoring and analytics based on WAMS - GETCO project Gulabsinh Gadhvi Mukesh1 1Superintending Engineer (SCADA and IT), State Load Dispatch Centre, GETCO, Vadodara , Gujarat, India Online published on 6 May, 2023. Abstract Modern day power systems face various challenges like the complex and ever-changing grid monitoring and control, faults or disturbances detection, constant variations in load and variability due to penetration of renewables sources of energy in modern power system. In order to overcome these challenges, the wide area monitoring system based on the synchro phasor technology and of Phasor Measurement units has enormous applications in detection of power system faults and in taking the necessary corrective measures before the failure of the power system. In this paper, we shall discuss GETCO Project of WAMS phase 1 and phase 2 and some case studies of power system faults that occurred in the Gujarat grid on the state level basis of Gujarat in which the Phasor Measurement Unit was effective in the detection of faults. We will also discuss the use of WAMS based analytics presently in service and for future. Top Keywords Power systems, Synchro-phasor-technology, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS), Indian Grid, Fault detection, Grid monitoring , Analytics, System inertia, State Estimation, Small Scale oscillation. Top |