Case Study of Enhancing the MATPOWER Polish Electric Grid

The MATPOWER Polish systems are several power system test cases that are created using the real power system of Poland circa 2000. However, dynamic model parameters and geographic coordinates were not provided with the initial cases in MATPOWER. To improve the Polish test systems, this paper describes the process of converting the Polish systems included with MATPOWER to the PowerWorld format, assigning geographic coordinates to the 400 kV and 220 kV high voltage networks and adding dynamic models. Additionally, several categories of power system metrics were analyzed for the MATPOWER Polish systems, and the results compared with the corresponding metrics from the United States power systems.