The electricity grid in Bangladesh wasn’t stable enough to handle existing power generation needs, much less the anticipated ~8% of additional annual growth. After the grid collapsed, the country called on Consulting Services to help.
To help avoid future blackouts and better prepare the Bangladesh grid for future growth, Consulting Services recommended code improvements and mitigation strategies to help avoid a future blackout, and worked with the country’s grid to simulate, model and plan a more stable grid that can support the additional electricity needs of the future.
annual power growth
needed in the country
The scope of Consulting Services’ work included:
Grid model development and validation
Model and validate the operations of the existing grid in Bangladesh to better understand what caused the grid collapse.
Simulate and validate future grid operation
With electricity demand expected to grow by 8% annually through 2018 (up to 10GW), Consulting Services will continually be updating and validating the assumptions in the 2014 simulation to help ensure the grid can continue to support growth, while avoiding a system issue.
Stability study
To assess grid performance of large disturbances on the grid, such as tripping of a large generator or a transformer or a transmission network
Islanding study
To develop a secure islanding approach to isolate critical load centers safely
Review grid codes
To suggest interconnection requirements to help ensure grid security and reliability
Review of generation and transmission planning
To review and recommend additional transmission strengthening requirements, as well as validate the generation planning and highlight the operations of the thermal fleet in the future
