September 2003

 

C: SYSTEM PROTECTION SUBCOMMITTEE

Chair: D. Novosel

Vice Chair: T. Seegers

 

The system protection Subcommittee met on September 24, 2003, with 54 people attending including 12 members. 

 

It was noted again that several working groups are close to completing their assignments.  It was also noted that several new working groups have been formed. 

 

Note that one task forces met this time and a new working group was formed.  Its report is given below under C6 Relay Engineering in Power Engineering Curricula

 

Working Group Reports:

C2:    Power Quality Issues in Protective Relaying

Chair: T.W. Cease

Vice Chair: S. Kunsman

 

Working group did not meet during this  PSRC meeting.

 

Next meeting requires 1 session, room for 30 people, & computer projector.

C3:    Trends and Issues with Relay Settings

Chair: Steve Kunsman

Vice Chair:  Gary Kobet

 

Working Group C3 met Wednesday, September 24, 2003 in Madison, WI with 7 (of 14) members and 14 guests.  Four guests expressed a desire to become new WG members.  The vice-chair chaired the meeting in the chairman’s absence.

 

The working group assignment was discussed and refined.  Working group output (format to be decided later):

 

Discussion centered on developing the topics to be covered into an overall outline.

 

Five represented utilities agreed to make presentations at the next meeting on their relay setting process relative to the developed outline:

 

The vice-chair agreed to send the outline to all participants for their review and comment.

 

Next meeting requires 2 sessions, room for 30 people, & computer projector.

C4:    Wide Area Protection and Emergency Control

Chair: M. Begovic

Vice Chair: D. Novosel

 

3 papers are almost complete.

 

Group will not meet in January.

C5:    Deployment and Use of Disturbance Recorders

Chair: B. Jackson

Vice Chair: W.M. Strang

 

Working group did not meet during this PSRC meeting.

 

Next meeting requires 1 session room for 30 people & computer projector.

 

C6:    Relay Engineering in Power Engineering Curricula

Chair: S.S. Venkata

Vice Chair: J. DeLaRee

 

Working group was created based upon discussions in a task force meeting.  Assignment is to work on issues to encourage and propagate relay engineering in college curricula.

 

C7:    Multi-Station and System Testing

Chair: V. Madani

Vice Chair: H. DoCarmo

 

C7 met in two sessions with 10 Members and 10 Guests in attendance

The key items discussed by the members and guests included:

            Clarification of the assignment

            Preparation of draft outline

            Volunteers for presentations

            WG member assignments

 

Next meeting requires 2 sessions room for 30 people & computer projector.

 

C8:    Phasor-Based Models for Analyzing Relay Performance

Chair:  M. Meisinger

Vice Chair: M. S. Sachdev

 

C8 met with 5 members and 4 guests. As the document is out for ballot and

the number of responses to date are few, the meeting adjourned in short

order and Jaime De La Ree and Mike Meisinger reviewed the document and Jaime

will forward his comments to Moh Sachdev.

 

Next meeting requires 1 session & room for 20 people.

C9:    Underfrequency Load Shedding and Restoration

Chair: A. Apostolov

Vice Chair: K. Behrendt

 

The working group met on Tuesday, September 23rd, with 6 members and 4 guests present.  Draft 3 of the document was circulated for comments prior to this meeting. Draft 3 was accompanied by a working group survey, soliciting comments by the end of October. Any negative survey responses and significant comments will be resolved and incorporated in the next draft document by November 30th. 

 

The working group discussed comments received on Draft 2. Rich Young, from ATC, volunteered to provide updated UF guidelines from MAIN. Additional changes to control area guidelines may occur in the aftermath of the August 14th blackout. We expect that the working group will review the events of August 14th to determine if any changes are warranted to the guide.

 

Next meeting requires 1 session room for 25 people & computer projector and outlet strip.

C10:  Effects on Changing Utility Environment on Protective Relaying

Chair: J. DeLa Re

Vice Chair: R. Hunt

 

The working group met for a single session at 9:30 AM, Wednesday, September 24, 2003 in Capitol Ballroom B with 6 members and 11 guests. 

 

Discussions centered on Draft 2 of the Working Group report.  Assignments and Action Items are as shown below, with a goal of finishing the Working Group report by the January meeting, or resolving any negative responses to Draft 3.

 

Assignments and Action Items

 

Ø                  Chair and Vice-Chair to finalize revisions to Draft 2 by October 10th, 2003.

Ø                  Report Draft 3 will be sent out for Working Group Vote on October 10th, 2003.

Ø                  Working Group responses due by November 15th, 2003.

Ø                  Chair and Vice-Chair to resolve negative responses

Ø                  Chair will send out Report to C Subcommittee after resolving negative responses.

 

Revisions to Draft 2:

 

Ø                  Remove individual responses to the survey

Ø                  Include a blank survey form as an appendix

Ø                  Add a Table of Contents

Ø                  Summarize inputs from member presentations

 

Next meeting requires 1 session, room for 20 people, & computer projector.

 

C11:  Protection Issues During System Restoration

Chair: T. Sidhu

Vice Chair: D. Tziouvaras

 

Working group did not meet during this PSRC meeting.

 

Next meeting requires 1 session, room for 30 people, & computer projector.

 

 

Liaison Reports:

 

1. IEEE PES Power System Stability Controls SC                                              Gary Michel

 

The IEEE/PES Power System Stability Controls Subcommittee met from 8-9am in Toronto on Tuesday, July 15. Following the meeting the subcommittee sponsored an all-day panel session on Wind Generation Modeling and Controls for Power System Dynamic Performance. Willie Wong chaired the morning panel session and Ross Guttromson chaired the afternoon panel session.

On Wednesday afternoon the subcommittee sponsored a panel session on Load Control for Price and System Stability. Steve Widergren chaired the session.

On Monday at 13:00, the Power System Dynamics Measurements WG met. The WG is preparing a document summarizing industry experience. Dick Schulz chaired the meeting

On Monday afternoon at 14:00, the Fast-Acting Load Control for System and Price Stability TF met. Steve Widergren chaired the meeting.

CIGRE TF 38.02.23 on Coordinated Voltage Control in Transmission Networks met on Sunday, July 13 from 9-11am. Nelson Martins chaired the meeting.

The subcommittee sponsored a special publication entitled “VOLTAGE STABILITY ASSESSMENT: CONCEPTS, PRACTICES AND TOOLS.” It is now available from IEEE Publications.

The Power System Dynamic Performance Committee sponsored a panel session on FACTS Applications at the 2003 IEEE PES T&D Exposition in Dallas.

Following the Toronto meeting, Nelson Martins will be Subcommittee chairman and Juan Sanchez-Gasca will be Subcommittee secretary. The Power System Dynamic Performance Committee policy will be four-year terms for subcommittee chair and secretary, with the secretary becoming the new chair.

The next Subcommittee meeting will be with the IEEE PES 2004 meeting in Denver.

 

2. NERC EC                                                                                                                       Winston

 

No activities to report

 

3. PES Power Systems Analysis, Computing, & Economics                           Mal Swanson    

 

No activities to report

 

New Business

As a result of discussions, a two new task force were formed to discuss the need for possible subcommittee involvement as follows:

CTF4 Special Protection Schemes

Task Force Chair:       M. Begovic

CTF4 was formed to follow up on earlier work on wide area relaying and emergency control.  This task force will discuss the need to form a working group to explore more detailed information on the topic of special protection schemes.

Next meeting requires 1 session, room for 30 people, & computer projector.

 

CTF1 Cyber Security Issues for Relaying

Task Force Chair:       S. Ward

This task force will discuss the need to form a working group to explore issues related to security in microprocessor based relays and related equipment in substations including the use of passwords, encoding, remote access, etc.

Next meeting requires 1 session, room for 30 people, & computer projector.