January, 2002

 

C: System Protection Subcommittee
Chair: D. Novosel

Vice Chair: T. Seegers

The System Protection Subcommittee met on January 9th, 2002 at 3:30 PM at Dana Point, California.  36 people attended the meeting, including 14 members.

Damir Novosel is a new chair of the Subcommittee and Tony Seegers is a new vice-chair.

7 WGs met at this meeting.

WG Reports:

C2:    Power Quality Issues in Protective Relaying

Chair: T.W. Cease

Vice Chair: David Hart

Established:  2000

Expected Completion Date: 2003

Output:  Report to Main Committee and IEEE Transactions Paper

 

 

C2 WG met on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2002, in Dana Point, CA, with 14 members and 18 guests.  Before the meeting, one member left the Group.  There are now 26 members in the Working Group.

At this meeting, Section 5 was discussed and comments will be incorporated.

At the next meeting, there will be a discussion of the first completed draft.  Comments on drafts are due by April 1.  Revisions are due by April 15, 2002.

 

WG plans to complete the first draft by the next meeting in May. 

Next meeting: single session, room for 35 people + Projector

C3:    New Technology for Transmission and Distribution Protection

Chair: A. P. Apostolov

Vice Chair: P. A. Solanics

Established:  1994

Expected Completion Date: Continuing

Output:  Report to Main Committee and IEEE Transactions Paper

 

Session planned for the next meeting. Topic: How to use XML in our field. Time slot to be determined.

C5:          Deployment and Use of Disturbance Recorders

Chair: B. Jackson

Vice Chair: W.M. Strang

Established:  2001

Expected Completion Date: 2004

Output:  Report to Main Committee and IEEE Transactions Paper

 

The Working Group is working on Draft 3 of the outline for a paper.  Very few comments were received.

A similar document, written by PSRC in 1995, “Fault and Disturbance Data Requirement for Automated Computer Analysis”, includes a number of topics of the present outline.  It was requested that the WG review this document to determine if some of these topics are properly covered and if they need to be included in the new document.

A presentation was made by Jim Ingleson on Power Swing Recorders used by the NYISO.

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 30 people.

C6:    Wide Area Protection and Emergency Control

Chair:    M. Begovic

Vice Chair: D. Novosel

Established: 1996

Expected Completion Date: 2002

Output:  Report to Main Committee

 

WG met on January 8th in a single session with 7 members and 6 guests in attendance. Daniel Karlsson gave an update on CIGRE 38.02.19 activities in wide area protection. Daniel is a convener of the CIGRE WG on System Protection Schemes in Power Networks.

 

WG agreed that there are no major changes required in the document.

 

Following actions were initiated:

¨                       Draft 6.2 to be sent to people with actions by January 11 in MS Word 97 and pdf.

¨                       Final contributions to be sent to Miroslav by February 28th

·              Charlie Henville will merge part on out-of-step relaying from Chapter on Angular Stability Techniques to a section on out-of-step relaying.

¨                       Daniel Karlsson will proof read the document. By March 20th

¨                       Miroslav will send for consensus balloting in the WG by April 1st

¨                       Final comments/ballots by May 1st

¨                       Address comments and ballots at the meeting in May

¨                       Balloting process to start by September

 

The report will be posted on the WEB.

 

It is also proposed that C SC starts a new WG to publish a conference paper to assure distribution and address if there is interest in additional activities in this area. 7 people already volunteered for this task.

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 25 people + Projector

 

C8:    Phasor-Based Models for Analyzing Relay Performance

Chair:  Mike Meisinger

Vice Chair: M. S. Sachdev

Established, 1997

Expected Completion Date: 2002

Output:  Transactions Paper

 

The Working Group met at 4:30 PM on January 08, 2002 in Dana V Room, The Laguna Cliff Marriott Hotel, Dana Point, CA.  Ten members and nine guests were present.

Juergen Holbach provided a draft on zero sequence compensation; this section will be incorporated in the paper before the next meeting of the Working Group.

Draft of Section III.B.3, "Model Implementation," continues to be outstanding; this section was reassigned to M. Sachdev.  Bob Ryan was assigned Section III.C, ”Phasor-Based Software Model Examples”.  After a prolonged discussion, this section was reassigned to Elmo Price, Gabriel Benmouyal and Alex Aapostolov.  These sections are due before March 15, 2002.  Vice Chair will incorporate these sections and will circulate the revised draft of the paper before the next meeting.

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 25 people

C9:          Underfrequency Load Shedding and Restoration

Chair: A. Apostolov

Vice-Chair: K. Behrendt

Established, 1999

Expected Completion Date:  December 2002

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

The working group met on Tuesday, January 8th, with 16 members and 9 guests present. The working group reviewed the guide’s outline and review commitments for writing assignments. A few writing assignments were received, but several are still needed. The chairman discussed a new schedule get a draft document created. All outstanding writing assignments should be submitted by the middle of March, so the first complete draft document can be assembled and circulated in April for comments and possible Working Group ballot at the May, 2002, meeting. A comment spreadsheet will be sent out to working group members with the draft to permit comments on the draft in a standard format. Contributors are requested to select a section of the document to review, preferably a section that they did not write.

Al Darlington will create or edit drawings for the guide. Al will also contribute documentation for section 5 based on load shedding schemes used in Florida. Al requested that data plots to be included in the document should be accompanied by an Excel file with the original data points.

References will be grouped and numbered in the Bibliography section of the document.

The guide will include web addresses for links to other sources of under frequency load shedding documentation.

The scheduled completion date of December, 2001, is not going to happen. Perhaps December, 2002 may be a more achievable completion date.

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 40 people with a projector screen and outlet strip.

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 working group met on  January 9, 2002 in Dana 4 with 23 members and guests.  The Chairman distributed copies of the last meeting minutes.

 

Discussion focused on lack of survey results from previous meeting.  Members were unaware of receiving the survey.  Survey will be re-sent to all PSRC members, with a requested response date of March 31st, 2002.  Specific Working Group members provided discussions on changes from their individual experiences, and will forward written versions to the Working Group by March 31st, 2002.

 

Assignments and Action Items:

 

·  Chair to distribute survey to PSRC members by January 19th, 2002.

·  Survey results due by March 31st, 2002.

·  Vahid Madani, Tom Domin, Don Ware, Mark Carpenter, and David Emigh to provide write-ups on their experiences by March 31st, 2002.

·  Chair and Vice-Chair to distribute survey results to Working Group prior to next meeting.

 

This WG is at the first draft.

Next meeting: single session, room for 30 people + Projector

C11:          Protection Issues During System Restoration

Chair: T. Sidhu

Vice-Chair: D. Tziouvaras

Established: 2000

Expected Completion Date: 2003

Output:  PSRC Report

 

The Working Group met on January 8, 2002, with seven members and fourteen guests present.  Three new write-ups on slack start issues, planning studies and issues related to natural disasters were received and briefly discussed at the meeting.  Outline of the report was discussed and a few new issues that should be included in the report were identified.  A number of assignments to revise  previously received write-ups and new write-ups were made.  The assignments are due by the end of February 2002.  The chairman will write the  introduction section and organize the report.  This report will be sent to the members of WG for discussions at the May meeting. 

 

This WG is plans to have the  first draft by the May meeting.

Next meeting: single session, room for 35 people + Projector

Liaison Report of the IEEE PES Power System Stability Controls SC to the PSRC 

 

Gary Michael: Nothing to report

NERC Liaison Report to SC

 

Phil Winston: Nothing major to report.