The past days have been a great reminder to my long time personal project which I have not attended to. The newly appointed DOE Secretary raps the NGCP's lack of transparency. This is not a surprise since NGCP now operates as a private company unlike before. Mr. Nick Nichols blogged about the communication of NGCP and Meralco to the public at large. GMA News has done a geographical reporting and analysis of floods in the past, which I think Mr. Nichols is suggesting the same type of reporting for outages.
The difficulty being cited produced fire in me again to re-visit and finish this project. I have been thinking about this project - an approximate Luzon grid model. Of course, data won't be coming from NGCP or the WESM. I believe I can do it by merely using public data. Public data like the following:
1. WESM Market Network Model - has present system configuration and capacities of plants, substations and transmission lines
2. Transco Annual Report - has capacities and distances of several lines
3. Market Simulation of Luzon Grid submitted to the ERC - has a reduced 30 bus model of the Luzon grid, which I think is sufficient for the model I am planning, and provides load allocation for those 30 buses.
Using free Powerworld 40 bus version software to act as my data bank and to simulate the model, I already got an approval from Powerworld Corporation to go ahead with this research, and use Google Earth to measure distances between substations.
This model can be utilize for public discussions and probably have it available for the academic community to have a working power system model.
One weakness, I foresee, in this model is there is no publicly available grid impact study for which I can compare the results of the power flow simulations. Yet, I still believe it's a worthy project.