LBNL Power Data
Can synchronized distribution level phasor measurements enhance planning for power flow and system control, security and resiliency in the modernized grid?
By installing a number of µPMUs in various locations in the electric distribution system and evaluating the data from them, this data supports a variety of projects to determine whether refined measurement of voltage phase angles can enable advanced diagnostic, monitoring and control methodologies in distribution systems, and to begin developing algorithms for diagnostic applications based on µPMU data.
Applications being studied include:
- State estimation and enhanced visibility for distribution system operators
- Characterization of loads and distributed generation
- Diagnosis of potentially problematic conditions such as oscillations or FIDVR
- Microgrid synchronization
- Cybersecurity of power distribution grid equipment
The data available is a set of power measurements and annotations, and an interface for exploring and downloading that data. The power measurements are collected by micro-phasor measurement units (μPMUs) and PQube3 power quality meters manufactured by Power Standards Laboratory in Alameda, CA and located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as other sites.
The manufacturer Power Standards Laboratory (PSL) supplied and tested the measurement technology, which is based on PSL’s already commercialized PQube power quality recorder.
For the data collected by the CEDS µPMU project, please reference this publication for citations, which also contains more information on the dataset:
Sean Peisert, Reinhard Gentz, Joshua Boverhof, Chuck McParland, Sophie Engle, Abdelrahman Elbashandy, and Dan Gunter, “LBNL Open Power Data,” LBNL Technical Report, May 2017. DOI:10.21990/C21599
This work was sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems program.
Additional data
Several legacy datasets generated by an AEPA-E project are also hosted and linked to via this web site and are available for direct download:
For that data, please reference this publication for citations:
Stewart E.M., et al “Open μPMU: A real world reference distribution micro-phasor measurement unit data set for research and application development,” LBNL Technical Report 1006408, October 2016.
This research was sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E program (DE-AR0000340). The California Institute of Energy and Environment (CIEE) led this project along with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
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