External network modeling -- Recent practical experience

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent practical experience in external network modeling at a number of utility control centers. This paper presents a set of short notes that discuss recent practical experiences on external network modeling. The introduction provides a framework for the rest of the short notes by discussing network representation, modeling issues, unobservable internal models versus unreduced external models, and data for the unobservable network. The first short note discusses the solution methods consisting of power flow, one pass SE, and two pass SE. The remaining short notes discuss recent practical experience on external network modeling at a number of utility control centers. The last short note describes techniques for developing REI equivalents.