Grid Codes Comparison

Abstract

After the deregularization a need emerged to create organizations in charge of the development, implementation and update of different technical specifications to coordinate the electrical market. This type of organizations are responsible fro regulating on a national level, nevertheless different organizations exist in Europe, whose main function consists on the transmission coordination for different system operators. The grid codes are the technical specifications emitted principally by the Transmission System Operators (TSO). These sets of regulations do not follow a specific format since every country elaborates its own grid codes according to their requirements. The aim of this thesis consists on investigating the different grid codes emitted by each of the selected countries (United Status of America, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and India) and in the same way, the regional organizations to which they belong are also compared. Finally an optimal grid code is presented, which contains the principal requirements that a grid code must contain.