Global behaviour of power system frequency in Korean power system for the application of frequency monitoring network

Since the concept of building an Internet-based real-time global positioning system synchronised wide-area frequency monitoring network (FNET) was proposed in 2001, FNET has been implemented in the Power IT Laboratory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech.), and now it is used in monitoring the power system frequency in continuous time at more than 40 locations in the United States. A global view of the power system frequency based on FNET measurements helps understand the frequency behaviour more correctly, and its various applications such as event location estimation have been also studied. The global behaviour of power system frequency in the Korean power system, which has very unique characteristics, is analysed and thereby the possibility of applying FNET is studied. Although the scale of the Korean power system is much smaller than the US power systems, its global behaviour of frequency has its own characteristics, and those findings will help us understand any correlation between system characteristics and the global frequency behaviour. What is found here could serve as the first step to the application of FNET to the Korean power system.