A Critical Review of State-of-the-Art Optimal PMU Placement Techniques

Muhammad Musadiq Ahmed, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Ali Qureshi, Kashif Imran, Zunaib Maqsood Haider and Muhammad Omer Khan
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Muhammad Musadiq Ahmed: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Muhammad Amjad: Department of Electronics Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Muhammad Ali Qureshi: Department of Information & Communication Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Kashif Imran: Department of ELectrical Power Engineering, USPCAS-E, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Zunaib Maqsood Haider: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Muhammad Omer Khan: Department of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Riphah International University, Faislabad 37000, Pakistan

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-25

Abstract: Phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology is a need of the power system due to its better resolution than conventional estimation devices used for wide-area monitoring. PMUs can provide synchronized phasor and magnitude of voltage and current measurements for state estimation of the power system to prevent blackouts. The drawbacks of a PMU are the high cost of the device and its installation. The main aspect of using PMUs in electrical networks is the property to observe the adjacent buses, thereby making it possible to observe the system with fewer PMUs than the number of buses through their optimal placement. In the last two decades, exhaustive research has been done on this issue. Considering the importance of this field, a comprehensive review of the progress achieved until now is carried out and the limitations of existing reviews in the literature are highlighted. This paper can be seen as a major attempt to provide an up-to-date review of the research work carried out in this all-important field of PMU placement and indicates that some perspectives of optimal PMU placement still need attention. Eventually, the work will open a new standpoint for the research community to fill the research gap.

Keywords: phasor measurement unit (PMU); synchrophasors; optimization; optimal PMU placement (OPP); complete network observability (CNO); incomplete network observability (INO); single PMU or line outage ( N ? 1 contingency) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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