January 11, 2000    San Diego

 

C SC System Protection

MINUTES OF MEETING

 

C:                    System Protection
Chair:             J. S. Thorp

Vice Chair:             D. Novosel

 

The System Protection Subcommittee met on January12, 1999.

 

WG Reports:

 

WG C1:             Software Models for Relays

Chair: P. G.  McLaren

Vice Chair: K. K. Mustaphi

Established:  1995

Expected Completion Date: 1999

Output:  IEEE Transactions Paper

 

The WG did not meet.

 

WG C3:             New Technology for Transmission and Distribution Protection

Chair: A. P. Apostolov

Vice Chair: P. A. Solanics

Established:  1994

Expected Completion Date: 1999

Output:  Report to Main Committee and IEEE Transactions Paper

 

WG C3 New Technology for Transmission and Distribution Protection met for a single session on 1/11/2000 with 18 members and 45 guests present.

 

Two presentations were made and discussed by the working group:

 

Substation Integration in Duke Power (Barry Jackson, Duke Power) :

The presentation and discussions were related to a recent upgrade and integration of microprocessor relays in an Integrated Substation Protection and Control System in Duke Power.

 

Comparison of Ethernet Substation LAN Topologies (Dave Dolezilek, SEL):

The presentation and discussions were related to the implementation of different Ethernet LAN topologies, their reliability and availability.

 

The next meeting will be in May 2000. The agenda will be finalized by March 31, 2000.

 

 

WG C6:  Wide Area Protection and Emergency Control

Chair: M. Begovic

Vice Chair: D. Novosel

Established: 1996

Expected Completion Date: 2000

Output:  Report to Main Committee

 

WG met in a single session with 9 members and 11 guests. In the absence of the chairman, the vice-chairman, D. Novosel, was chairing the meeting.

Daniel Karlsson gave a presentation on CIGRE activities in Wide Area Protection.  Daniel is a convener of the CIGRE WG on System Protection Schemes.M. Begovic and D. Karlsson will do documentation and exchange of documents between PSRC and CIGRE.

The report outline was reviewed and revised. Existing material and contributions need to be synchronized with the new outline.  This is assigned to the chairman, M. Begovic.

Additional assignments are:

-          Review of NERC disturbances on the web: J. Thorp

-          Description of Generation Rejection Remedial Measure: M. Ibrahim

-          Description of 1965 blackout: M. Ibrahim

-          Review of practical examples: C. Henville

 

The WG will meet at the next meeting in May in a single session.

 

WG C7:           EMTP Applications to Power System Protection
Chair: D. Tziouvaras

Vice Chair: L. Kojovic

Established, 1997

Expected Completion Date: 1999

Output:  Report to Main Committee

 

The WG met in San Diego on January 11, 2000, with 6 members present.

The WG is in the process of obtaining permission from PES to present the EMTP tutorial during the PES Summer Meeting in Seattle, WA.

 

Members of the WG agreed to supply any changes to the documents and comments by February 15th to allow sufficient time for the tutorial to be formatted according to PES publication guidelines and make it available to IEEE for printing.

 

C8:             Phasor Based Models for Analyzing Relay Performance

Chair: M. Meisinger

Vice-Chair: M. S. Sachdev

Established, 1997

Expected Completion Date:  2002

Output:  Transactions Paper

 

 

WG C9:             Underfrequency Load Shedding and Restoration

Chair: A. Apostolov

Vice-Chair: K. Behrendt

Established, 1999

Expected Completion Date:  2000

Output: Guide on the Application of under-frequency load shedding and restoration

 

The working group met on Wednesday, January 12th, with 21 members and 23 guests present. The PAR has been submitted and the working group document has been assigned the number PC37.117. The working group reviewed the guide’s scope, purpose, and outline that were developed at previous meetings. Attention then focused on developing writing assignments for items in the outline. The outline, and writing assignments received to date, will be emailed to members for their review. This information will also be posted on the working group website when that is available in the near future. New writing contributions will also be added to the web site as they are received. Writing contributions should be submitted by mid April to allow time for these contributions to be reviewed before the next PSRC meeting.

 

The scheduled completion date remains December, 2001. The working group expects to meet in single session at the next PSRC meeting, and needs a room for 40 with a projector screen.

 

 

WG C10:             Effects on Changing Utility Environment on Protective Relaying

Chair: J. DeLa Re

Vice-Chair: R. Hunt

Established, 1999

Expected Completion Date:  2002

Output:  Report to Main Committee

 

The WG met at 9:30 am, Tuesday, January 11, 2000, with 30 attendees.  The chairman distributed copies of the last meeting and an e-mail posted December 10, 1999.  (Copy of the e-mail is included at the end of this report.)

 

The discussion included the input from a number of the participants from this country, as well as from foreign countries, with information regarding de-regulation and its impact on protection practices.  The inputs were presented by:

 

Norberto Santiago Elustondo

ZIV Aplicaciones y Tecnologia, S.A.

Spain

Tom Domin

PP&L Resources

USA

Daniel Karlsson

ABB

Sweden

Vahid Madani

Pacific Gas & Electric

USA

Mahamid Ibrahim

New York Power

USA

Kazik Kuras

GE Power Management

Canada

J. Rothwell

Wisconsin Elctric

USA

 

Assignments and Action Items:

-          Each of the above listed participants will write a brief description regarding the changes to the industry environment and its impact to protection.  We will have a brief presentation with the gathered material during our next meeting in Grand Rapids, May 2000.

-          The information gathered will be distributed among the members and guests of the WG prior to our next meeting.  Questions, comments and discussions may be mailed to Jaime De La Ree to be included in a document, which will be used to guide the discussions of our next meeting.

 

Change of Vice-Chair:

Mr. Rich Hunt will replace Mr. T. Sezi as Vice-Chair of the WG.

 

Next meeting: For our next meeting, we need a room for 40 participants and a projection system to run a powerpoint presentation.

 

 

CTF: Protection Issues during System Restoration

 

The Task Force met on January 12, 2000, with 29 participants in attendance.  Thirteen of them indicated that they are willing to become members and contribute to the work.  It was clear from the discussions that there is sufficient interest to form a WG.

 

The following title and assignment for the WG were agreed to:

 

Title: Protection Issues during System Restoration

 

Assignment: To study relaying issues during system restoration following a major disturbance and suggest remedial measures.

 

It was also agreed that the initial output of the WG will be a PSRC report which will be later summarized in the form of a transaction paper.  Demetrious Tziouvaras volunteered to be the vice-chairman of the WG.  If the formation of the WG is approved, two presentations will be made at the first meeting of the WG.

 

NERC Liaison Report to SC

 

The Phase 2 Compliance Testing program is getting kicked off.  5-8 Protection & Control

 Standards 7 measures are in Phase 2.  Nothing else of significance to report.

 

New Business:

D. Novosel proposed to create the Task Force to evaluate if there is interest to create a new working group on “Power Quality and Protective Relaying” and, if this is the case, to define the assignment. It is decided to have a TF meeting in May in a single session.

Power Quality and Protective Relaying

Today’s higher power system sensitivity to voltage variations and harmonics and competitive industry environment has put new demands on utilities to further improve quality of power delivery. Power quality (e.g. voltage dips) is significantly influenced by operation of the protection equipment. Utility practices may be influenced by the customers’ power quality requirements. Presently, microprocessor relays also include functions to monitor and display power quality parameters. As this functionality is part of the application function library, it would be of interest to summarize what is being implemented in relays today and address standard requirements and trends.

It is proposed to address following:

-          Impact if present practices on power quality

-          Power quality monitoring functions in the relays

-         Standards related to power quality.

Initiate Task Force to define the assignments.