What is Power System Topology Verification

A necessary condition for monitoring and control of a Power System (PS) is possessing a credible model of this system. The PS model for a need of dispatchers in national control centre is created in real time. An important element of such a model is a topology model. PS Topology Verification (PSTV) is an important problem in PS engineering. Often this problem is solved together with PS state estimation (Lukomski, & Wilkosz, 2000; Mai, Lefebvre, & Xuan, 2003). Methods, that enable such a solution of the problem, are sophisticated and usually time consuming. They require successful state estimation performance but convergence problems may occur in the case of certain Topology Errors (TEs). Thus, a robust method for PSTV before a state estimation is desired.