Kundur Two-Area Test System

Kundur's two-area test system, from Prabha Kundur's book "Power System Stability and Control", is a power system utilized mostly for testing dynamics of solving stability issues.  Most researchers and engineers worked on this system to analyzed HVDC and FACTS impact on the transient stability. Other works were focused on small signal stability effect of such devices and/or Power System Stabilizers (PSS).

Single-line diagram of the Kundur two-area system.

The left part of the system is Area 1 and right part is Area 2. The ties (lines between buses 7, 8 and 9) are 110 km long thus the interconnection is rather not strong.

The system has dynamic data for the four machines and their exciters and stabilizers, aside from the power flow data. I took the power flow and dynamics data from "Implementation of an Adaptive Controller for Controlled Series Compensators in PSS/E". I adjusted the tie lines' data since the paper indicates that the lines were 150 km.

I will probably post power system dynamics tests using this system in the upcoming months (impact of PSS, critical clearing times, etc.).

You can download the test system built on PowerWorld v16 using this link.