Feasibility of distributed monitoring and distributed control in power system

This article presents an analysis of the feasibility of executing wide-area monitoring and control functions in a distributed way in the power system, taking advantage of interconnected system's behavior that describes the power system. For this purpose, observability is analyzed when the state estimation is performed in a distributed way and only with local measurements. Also, power system is adjusted to a distributed cooperative control problem based on consensus algorithms. After the analysis presented, it can be concluded that the power system can be represented through a disaggregated model, based on models of interconnected subsystems, which proves the feasibility of executing monitoring or control tasks in a distributed way without information exchange with neighboring areas.