WSG21601 Electric Power System Operation

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (Master's Course) Division of Advanced Science and Engineering Electrical, Systems, and Control Engineering Program

Lecture Code WSG21601 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 電力システム運用特論

Subject Name
（Katakana）デンリョクシステムウンヨウトクロン

Subject Name in
English Electric Power System Operation

Instructor ZOKA YOSHIFUMI

Instructor
(Katakana) ゾウカ　ヨシフミ

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  First Semester,  1Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Weds3-4,Fri5-6：ENG 106

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) Face-to-face

Presentations by all individual students, question-and-answers, discussions.

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 4 Language of Instruction J : Japanese

Course Level 6 : Graduate Advanced

Course Area（Area） 25 : Science and Technology

Course Area（Discipline） 11 : Electrical, Systems, and Control Engineering

Eligible Students 1st-grade Master Course Student

Keywords Electric power system, Planning, Operation, Analysis
SDGs: SDG_07, SDG_09

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)

Class Objectives
/Class Outline Electric power system is one of the most important infrastructure. Beginning from the basic topics, the framework and the methods for maintaining power supply reliability will be lectured. The main purpose of this lecture is to understand the operation problem of complex power system.

Class Schedule lesson1: Outline of the lecture. Assign the each student's part for presentation and arrange the schedule.
lesson2:
1. Features and constraints of the power system
1.1 Circumstances around the power system
  1.1.1 Energy supply
  1.1.2 Energy security, environment protection
lesson3:
  1.1.3 Deregulations
  1.1.4 Future issues
lesson4:
1.2 Features of the power system
  1.2.1 Fundamentals
  1.2.2 Expansion and upgrading
lesson5:
  1.2.3 Features of the power system
  1.2.4 Characteristics and issues of Japanese power system
lesson6:
1.3 Operation capacity and its constraints for maitaining the supply reliability
  1.3.1 Viewpoint for operation capacity and physical constraints
  1.3.2 Supply reliability
lesson7:
  1.3.3 Thermal capacity
  1.3.4 Frequency
lesson8:
  1.3.5 Voltage
  1.3.6 Stability
  1.3.7 Short circuit outage
lesson9:
2. Power system planning and operation -- Necessity
2.1 Power system planning and its necessity
  2.1.1 Outline of the planning
lesson10:
  2.1.2 Demand forecast
  2.1.3 Supply planning
lesson11:
  2.1.4 Generation development planning, transmission-transformation facilities planning, system protection planning
lesson12:
2.2 Power system operation and its necessity
  2.2.1 Outline of the operation
lesson13:
  2.2.2 Methodology
  2.2.3 Supply operation
lesson14:
  2.2.4 System operation
  2.2.5 Wide-area operation
lesson15: (optional extra day)

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Analysis and Operation Technologies for Power System Utilization, Technical Report No. 1100, IEE of Japan, 2007 (written in Japanese).

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. Handouts, Microsoft Teams, moodle

(More Details) PowerPoint + Projector (or MS Teams display sharing)
Presentation handouts: prepared by each student.

Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Flip Teaching

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Several sections of the text are assigned to all individual students. Each student should read carefully and understand completely the assigned part in advance, and should be responsible for the presentation to clearly explain the contents to other students.

Requirements

Grading Method Evaluation and scoring are based on the presentation itself, and question-and-answers achievement.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (Master's Course) Division of Advanced Science and Engineering Electrical, Systems, and Control Engineering Program
Lecture Code	WSG21601	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	電力システム運用特論
Subject Name （Katakana）	デンリョクシステムウンヨウトクロン
Subject Name in English	Electric Power System Operation
Instructor	ZOKA YOSHIFUMI
Instructor (Katakana)	ゾウカ　ヨシフミ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	1st-Year, First Semester, 1Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(1T) Weds3-4,Fri5-6：ENG 106
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face
Presentations by all individual students, question-and-answers, discussions.
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week	4	Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	6 : Graduate Advanced
Course Area（Area）	25 : Science and Technology
Course Area（Discipline）	11 : Electrical, Systems, and Control Engineering
Eligible Students	1st-grade Master Course Student
Keywords	Electric power system, Planning, Operation, Analysis SDGs: SDG_07, SDG_09
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Class Objectives /Class Outline	Electric power system is one of the most important infrastructure. Beginning from the basic topics, the framework and the methods for maintaining power supply reliability will be lectured. The main purpose of this lecture is to understand the operation problem of complex power system.
Class Schedule	lesson1: Outline of the lecture. Assign the each student's part for presentation and arrange the schedule. lesson2: 1. Features and constraints of the power system 1.1 Circumstances around the power system 1.1.1 Energy supply 1.1.2 Energy security, environment protection lesson3: 1.1.3 Deregulations 1.1.4 Future issues lesson4: 1.2 Features of the power system 1.2.1 Fundamentals 1.2.2 Expansion and upgrading lesson5: 1.2.3 Features of the power system 1.2.4 Characteristics and issues of Japanese power system lesson6: 1.3 Operation capacity and its constraints for maitaining the supply reliability 1.3.1 Viewpoint for operation capacity and physical constraints 1.3.2 Supply reliability lesson7: 1.3.3 Thermal capacity 1.3.4 Frequency lesson8: 1.3.5 Voltage 1.3.6 Stability 1.3.7 Short circuit outage lesson9: 2. Power system planning and operation -- Necessity 2.1 Power system planning and its necessity 2.1.1 Outline of the planning lesson10: 2.1.2 Demand forecast 2.1.3 Supply planning lesson11: 2.1.4 Generation development planning, transmission-transformation facilities planning, system protection planning lesson12: 2.2 Power system operation and its necessity 2.2.1 Outline of the operation lesson13: 2.2.2 Methodology 2.2.3 Supply operation lesson14: 2.2.4 System operation 2.2.5 Wide-area operation lesson15: (optional extra day)
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Analysis and Operation Technologies for Power System Utilization, Technical Report No. 1100, IEE of Japan, 2007 (written in Japanese).
PC or AV used in Class,etc.	Handouts, Microsoft Teams, moodle
(More Details)	PowerPoint + Projector (or MS Teams display sharing) Presentation handouts: prepared by each student.
Learning techniques to be incorporated	Discussions, Flip Teaching
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Several sections of the text are assigned to all individual students. Each student should read carefully and understand completely the assigned part in advance, and should be responsible for the presentation to clearly explain the contents to other students.
Requirements
Grading Method	Evaluation and scoring are based on the presentation itself, and question-and-answers achievement.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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