“Basics on Electric Power System Analysis” by Jon A. Barrena & E. Unamuno (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)

This is a two-day course oriented to introduce the basics on electric power system analysis and control to an audience that is not familiar with the electric systems. This first session will enable attendees to learn and understand basic analysis and calculations employed on electric systems, and how these electric power systems are controlled and operated.

The session will start with the most basic electricity concepts and calculations. The course will include as well the formulation of the model of the system, per unit single-phase equivalent circuit; admittance model of the system, methods for formulating the bus admittance matrix Ybus; solution of the nodal equations; Load flow analysis, definition of the load flow problem, formulation of the static load flow equations, types of buses, solution of the load flow equations by the Newton-Raphson iterative method.

The attendees must have basic knowledge on operations with complex numbers, differential equations, matrix calculations, iterative numerical methods for solving non-linear equations (Newton-Raphson).