The character played by phasor measurement units (PMU) in power grid monitoring systems today showcases the significance and usefulness of this device. There is a major challenge regarding the design and implementation of PMUs today as the commercial PMU vendors strongly look after their hardware and software designs keeping it away from researchers. Wide Area Monitoring is becoming an emerging challenge for power system engineers and researchers due to complexity in the power system network. So, PMU is one such device that can challenge such issues in the power system. The proposed paper presents the design and implementation of a two area system in MATLAB/Simulink. The two area system is synchronized together and then the two PMUs are introduced in it to measure the respective parameters. The PMUs that are used in the analysis follows the IEEE C37.118-2011 standard. The functionality of the PMU was tested by performing experiments which measured magnitudes of voltage, current, phase angle and frequency of a balanced three phase signal from PMU. After this analysis, we have introduced a fault in the system to observe the post-measurements of PMU. The conducted experiments confirmed that the PMU protected the power system and also synchronized and estimated voltage magnitude, phase angle and frequency approximately.

Phasor Measurement Unit, Two Area System, Synchrophasor, Power System Stability, Wide Area Monitoring Protection And Control(WAMPAC)

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