May, 2002

 

C: System Protection Subcommittee
Chair: D. Novosel

Vice Chair: T. Seegers

The System Protection Subcommittee met on May 22nd, 2002 at 4:30 PM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  41 people attended the meeting, including 15 members.

8 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 met Wednesday May 22, 2002 in Pittsburgh PA with 10 members and 20 guest present. Steve Kunsman joined as a member making the total 27 members.

 

Charles Perry from EPRI/PEAC presented material on Substation Monitoring with Smart Relays based on an EPRI project that evaluated multiple IED’s ability to capture PQ data.  Charles will verify whether the EPRI report can made available to the C2 WG.

 

Russ Patterson from C2 WG member presented material on PQDIF (IEEE 1159.3 Power Quality Data Interchange Format) for exchange of PQ data between different devices, simulation tools and analysis applications.  A new section in chapter 6 will be added to the report discussing PQDIF.

 

TW Cease stated that the report is almost complete but is still missing some input (IEC standards).  Since the report is near completion, the WG needs to make any and all comments promptly with a goal of finishing the report by January 2003.

 

Damir Novosel commented that a transaction paper needs to be written based on the report with a goal of completion by September 2003.

 

Damir Novosel will make sure the web-site is ready to allow for posting/distributing of the report since it is getting large.

 

Alex Apostolov raised the issue of will the report will address the Definite Time Overcurrent protection versus Inverse Instantaneous Overcurrent protection of relay operations to improve PQ.  Alex to fax hard copy of the paper to TW Cease for consideration of including this topic in the paper.

 

 

Action Items:

 

1.     Incomplete writing assignments due no later than August 15
Section 3.4 and 3.5             Alex Apostolov will recommend a person
Section 3.6             David Hart, Russ Patterson, Gary Kobet, Rene Jonker
Section 6             Alex to merge inputs

2.     New Section in 6 (PQDIF)             Russ Patterson

3.     New writing assignment on issues of PQ monitoring and relays             D. Hart

4.     All authors to review section and to reduce figure size (e.g. jpg format)             all

5.     Send remarks to section authors by July 1st             all

6.     Review and provide comments on bibliography to be sent to TW Cease             all

7.     First complete draft to be discussed at next meeting September 9, 2002

 

 

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

 

Working Group C3 meeting was held as part of the Main Committee meeting on

May 23, 2002. Attendance was the attendance of the Main Committee meeting.

There was no separate Introduction of attendees.  One presentation was made by Alexander Apostolov:

 

What is XML and How it Applies to Power System Protection and Control?

 

The presentation was followed by questions and discussions.

 

The officers of the Main Committee need to decide if there will be a WG C3

meeting in September 2002 or there will be an Ask the Experts session.

 

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

 

.           C-5 met with 10 members and 13 guests. 

 

Working group reviewed the assignment and draft 3 of the outline for the paper.  Also discussed was an IEEE paper “Fault and Disturbance Data Requirement for Automated Computer Analysis”, which covers many of the same subjects proposed for the WG paper. The outline was accepted and writing assignments were made.

 

A brief presentation was made by Jim Ingleson on a power swing event.  Jim showed the group a graph of the system frequency response for a power system disturbance.

 

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 35 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

 

The WG met in a single session with 12 members and 11 guests in attendance. After a discussion and overview of the last draft (Ver. 7.2) of the report, now over 80 pages long, the WG unanimously approved the report and submitted it to the consideration of the SC. Publication options of the report in its present form are to be decided by the SC (special publication of IEEE, or fee-based web downloading).

 

It was also decided to propose to the SC a creation of the new WG, entitled “Publications for Wide Area Protection and Emergency Control”, with the following Assignment

                       

                     Based on the report of C-6, create the following publications:

 

1.      IEEE Transactions paper to present an overview of the C-6 report

2.      Conference paper and presentation

 

         Expected completion date should be no later than September 2003.

 

If approved b y the SC, the new WG will meet in September 2003 in a single session (computer projector needed).

 

p.s. During the meeting, it was also decided that a paper be submitted based on the report for the Special Issue of IEEE Proceedings on “Energy Infrastructure Defense Systems”. That task needs to be completed by September 1, 2002, and will be coordinated by M. Begovic. The effort was also discussed of producing an expanded version of the report in the form of a monograph, for which some publishers have approached the WG. The monograph would target the readership interested in future applications of WAPEC.

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 25 people + Projector (if needed to resolve negative ballots)

 

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 May 21, 2002 in LeBateau Room, The Pittsburgh Hotel and Towers, Pittsburgh, PA.  Nine members and eighteen guests were present.

Mohindar Sachdev reported that he had not received any new assignments.  He also reported that he had incorporated the assignments provided by Dr. Juergen Holbach at the January 2002 meeting in the Working Group paper.

The Chair reported that he had received a contribution from Elmo Price.  Assignments form Gabriel Benmouyal and Alex Aapostolov on Section III.C ”Phasor-Based Software Model Examples” are awaited.  These contributions are now due before June 30, 2002.

Vice Chair Mohindar Sachdev and Chair Mike Meisinger will get together in Chicago in July 2002 and will work on editing of the current draft of the paper.

 

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, May 21st, with 15 members and 4 guests present. The working group reviewed the guide’s outline and commitments for writing assignments. A few writing assignments were received, but several more are expected within the next week. The chairman will assemble these writing assignments and issue Draft 1 by the middle of June. Assignments to review each section of the draft have been made. Comments will be collected and reviewed at the next meeting.

 

The scheduled completion date has been revised to September, 2003.

 

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 11:00 AM, Wednesday, May 22, 2002 in Ballroom 4 with 16 members and guests.  The Chairman distributed copies of the last meeting minutes.

 

We presented written contributions from MarK Carpenter, Tom Domin and Vahid Madani.  These contributions will help us to structure our paper/report to the subcommittee.  We are still expecting contribution from two more members.  The contributions seem to indicated a common pattern with increase functionality and documentation in each of the three areas of the system.  Distribution, transmission and generation.  Also, Special Protection Schemes are proliferating as a result of the changes in the structure of the utility industry.

 

In regards to our survey, to 05/15/2002, only 16 people had responded and more contributions are needed.  The comment amongst the attendees of today’s meeting is that the survey seems to indicate that is only for utility engineers.  All members of PSRC are invited to respond to the survey.  If a questions is not applicable to your company/position, please just leave the question unanswered.  We need the contributions of many to obtain significant results from the survey.

 

For those of you that did not received a copy, please feel free to contact Jaime De La Ree or visit the C-10 web-page inside of the PSRC web-site.

 

The chair and vice-chair will condense contributions and results of the survey to write the first draft of the WG C-10 Paper.  All members and guest are invited to discuss on the draft or to contribute to it.

 

Action Items:

Survey Response:            Interested PSRC Members

First Draft of the paper:  Jaime De La Ree, Rich Hunt            July 15, 2002

 

Next meeting: single session, room for 25 people

C11:          Protection Issues During System Restoration

Chair: T. Sidhu

Vice-Chair: D. Tziouvaras

Established: 2000

Expected Completion Date: 2003

Output:  PSRC Report

 

The WG met on May 21, 2002 with 8 members and 13 guests in attendance.

Draft #1 of the report was discussed. A number of suggestions for

changes were made. Contributors of these sections will incorporate the

suggested changes. New assignments were made. The new assignments and

the revised sections are due to the Chairman by July 15, 2002. The new

draft will be sent to the members for discussion at the Sept. 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:

On January 29, the Power System Stability Controls Subcommittee met from 8:00 to 9:00, with 69 members and guests attending. Following the business meeting, Brad Johnson chaired a technical paper session with three transactions papers and two proceedings papers. On January 29 afternoon, the Subcommittee sponsored the panel session Emergency Voltage Stability Controls; the attendance was 30-40. On January 30, the Subcommittee sponsored the panel session Fast-Acting Load Control for System and Price Stability with 30 in attendance.

 

Plans for the Chicago 2002 IEEE SPM meeting include a panel session on Power System Stability Controls Using Power Electronic Devices. John Doudna suggested a future panel session work on frequency control and Willie Wong proposed a session on system controls with wind generation.

 

The TF on Fast-Acting Direct Load Control for System and Price Stability chaired by Jeff Dagle met on January 28. The TF on Benchmark Systems for Stability Controls chaired by Ian Hiskens met on January 28.  The WG on Power Systems Dynamic Measurements chaired by Dick Schulz met on January 28 with high attendance. The WG is preparing a report.

 

Liaison reports were received from Juan Sanchez-Gasca on the IEEE Excitation Subcommittee TF on Power System Stabilizers, and from Nelson Martins on CIGRE TF 38.02.23 on Coordinated Voltage Control in Transmission Networks.

 

Several notes from the Load Control panel session: Cannon Technologies and PEPCO panelists indicated that pager technology is available to shed air conditioner or other load in 10-15 seconds. CaISO and ISO New England panelists indicated that direct load control from an ISO is difficult because they don't directly interface with customers. This did not seem to be a problem, however, for PJM/PEPCO. Hopefully my recollections are accurate; the panel papers are on the above web site.

 

The 2002 IEEE SPM committee sponsored agenda is the following:

1) Tuesday, July 23 8:00 am-9:00 am Power System Stability Controls Subcommittee business meeting.

Chair C. Taylor of BPA

2) Tuesday, July 23 9:00 am-12:00pm Paper session Chair: W. Wong, ABB Consulting, sponsored by: Power System Dynamic Performance Committee with the following papers:

-PE-420PRS (02-2002) A Hybrid Method For Generator Tripping. by G. Karady, Arizona State University and J. Gu, Arizona State University

-PE-010PRS (04-2002) Convertible Static Compensator Performance Studies On the NY State Transmission System. By S. Arabi, Powertech Labs and B. Fardanesh, New York Power Authority and H. Hamadanizadeh, Powertech Labs

-PP Predictive Frequency Stability Control Based On Wide-Area Phasor Measurements. By M. Larsson, ABB Schweiz AG and C. Rehtanz, ABB Schweiz AG

-PE-094PRS (12-2001) PMU Configuration For System Dynamic Performance Measurement in Large Multi-Area Power Systems by I. Kamwa, IREQ and R. Grondin, IREQ

-PE-651PRS (12-2001) Control Loops Selection For Damping Inter-Area Oscillations of Electrical Networks by I. Kamwa, IREQ and A. Heniche, Laval University

3) Tuesday, July 23/2:00 PM Power System Stability Controls Using Power Electronic Devices Panel Session, sponsored by: Power System Dynamic Performance Chair: C. Taylor, Bonneville Power Administration

The presentations and panelists are as follows:

-Understanding and Solving Short-Term Voltage Stability Problems by J. Diaz De Leon II, American Superconductor, and C. Taylor, Bonneville Power Administration

-Secondary Voltage-Var Controls Applied To Static Compensators (STATCOMs) For Fast Voltage Control and Long Term Var Management by J. Paserba, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.

-Large-Scale Wind Power Integration and Voltage Stability Limits in Regional Networks by M. Palsson, T. Toftevaag,, K. Uhlen, and J. Tande, of  SINTEF Energy Research

-Frequency and System Damping Assistance From HVDC and FACTS Controllers by M. Baker, K. Abbott, and B. Gemmell, of ALSTOM T & D

-Emergency-Stability Controls Through HVDC Links by S. Corsi, A. Danelli,  and M. Pozzi, of CESI

 

NERC Liaison Report to SC

 

Phil Winston: Nothing major to report