Power system stability studies including real hardware using phasor power hardware-in-the-loop technology

Stability is a main topic in the field of power systems. Due to the change of the conventional power generation plants to a more flexible distributed solution by adding renewable energy resources, power system stability will be getting more complex in future scenarios. Many studies and researches are currently under investigation to ensure a safe future power system. Badly is the state-of-the-art that power systems studies and component testing are mostly separated. Technologies like power hardware-in-the-loop showed a good solution over the last decade to close this gap. However, normal power system studies will be made by the use of phasor simulations. To increase the functionality of hardware-in-the-loop systems and closing the gap between simulation studies and component testing, this paper presents an explanation to combine phasor simulations and hardware-under-test testing.