New publicly accessible online power quality monitoring databases

While performing power system studies, it can be difficult to find real-world data to supplement and/or reinforce experimental data. This paper provides information on how four databases can be obtained through a new online power quality monitoring system accessible via the Internet and how the data in these databases can be used. The available data includes NOAA Space Weather, NREL Wind, the DOE/EPRI Disturbance Library, and the PQSoft PQ Waveform Library. The cloud-based databases are available at no cost to educational institutions worldwide for the purpose of training electric power engineering students.