Short-circuit simulations help quantify wheeling flow

摘要

New England transmission system owners use the results from short-circuit simulations to quantify the transmission wheeling services they provide to deliver power from the Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plants. The wheeling service of a transmitting utility, defined in terms of MW-miles, is determined with the use of fault currents to reflect the flow of MW entitlements over the New England transmission system. The use of commercially available software to automate simulations, perform the MW-miles calculation, and tabulate the results significantly reduces the time and computational effort.