About FNET/GridEye
Operated by the Power Information Technology Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, FNET/GridEye is a low-cost, quickly deployable GPS-synchronized wide-area frequency measurement network. High dynamic accuracy Frequency Disturbance Recorders (FDRs) are used to measure the frequency, phase angle, and voltage of the power system at ordinary 120 V outlets. The measurement data are continuously transmitted via the Internet to the FNET/GridEye servers hosted at the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech. The Power IT Lab has developed several applications which use the FNET/GridEye data to study the power system, including:
- Event detection and location
- Oscillation detection
- Animations of frequency and angle perturbations
- Integration of renewables into the power grid
- Detection of system breakup or islanding
- Providing grid control input signals
- Prediction of grid instability and reduction of blackouts
Video: How to Install Your Frequency Disturbance Recorder
FNET/GridEye Consortium
The FNET/GridEye Industry Consortium was formed to pool resources to support FNET/GridEye operations and
research. Among other benefits, Consortium member companies have access to automatic power grid event
alert e-mails. This e-mail includes event size (MW) and location information whenever possible, as well
as event data plots. Members also have access to the FNET/GridEye event website, which documents the
most recent major events.
Contact Professor Yilu Liu (liu@utk.edu) if you would like to learn more about the FNET/GridEye
Industry Consortium.
FNET/GridEye Application Research
- Event location triangulation and estimation of event size
- Wide-area frequency and angle visualization and graphic display
- Dynamic clustering from FNET/GridEye data (frequency and angle)
- Inter-area oscillation mode identification
- Post-disturbance scenario reconstruction
- Line activity identification
- Use FNET/GridEye data to verify system models used in simulations.
- Adaptive under-frequency load shedding algorithm development using wide-area frequency information as inputs
- Wide area FACTS, PSS/HVDC control and coordination using FNET/GridEye as inputs for damping inter-area oscillations
- Monitoring DG impact on system operations, DG control
- Trending and system response speed analysis of static frequency for all interconnections
- Monitoring tool for Compliance of NERC frequency response requirements
- ACE accuracy improvement with wide-area FNET/GridEye data
- Study propagation of frequency disturbances as electromechanical waves travel in power systems
- Analyze speed of travel from FNET/GridEye data and PSS/E simulations
Interested in hosting an FDR?
We are actively looking for FDR hosts, if you have a window with clear view of sky, Ethernet connection and are living in the area below, we are willing to offer you an FDR unit:
