There is rapidly-growing industry interest in the potential uses for streaming synchronized measurements from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). Vendors and users continue to develop and deploy new applications and infrastructure to take advantage of the new measurement data. San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) is among users who are deploying Wide-Area Situational Awareness (WASA) systems in which PMUs distributed across the grid are streaming data to control centers for situational awareness of dynamic wide-area behavior of the grid to system operators, and as a tool for engineers to perform post-event analysis of disturbances and operating events along with system model validation. These uses are just a part of a broader roadmap for many important new applications using PMU measurements. Over time, synchrophasors will serve as the new unified wide-area data-gathering platform serving system observation, operating data collection for SCADA and EMS, control, automation, market functions, asset management and maintenance support, and even high-speed wide-area fault and failure protection functions that supplement and back up local fault protection. A full-function PMU-based deployment is described as a Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection, Automation, and Control (WAMPAC) system.
The paper reviews the applications of operator situational awareness, SCADA and EMS data gathering, disturbance monitoring and analysis with model tuning, system state and condition monitoring, adaptive RAS, fire and hazard risk reduction, wide-area backup fault protection and swing mitigation, wide-area voltage stability monitoring and mitigation, wide-area voltage control, and PMU system self-monitoring. It characterizes the key elements and architecture of a wide-area PMU system from the PMUs through communications networks with redundancy and timing services to centralized processing locations or clouds. The SDG&E roadmap for WASA and WAMPAC is followed by
Oman Electricity Transmission Company SAOG (OETC) owns and operates the main transmission grid of the Sultanate of Oman and is also responsible for balancing generation and demand. Currently, OETC has deployed 22 Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) as part of Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS). OETC WAMS comprises of Electric Power Group's enhanced Phasor Data Concentrator (ePDC) for data concentration, Real-time Dynamics Monitoring System (RTDMS) for real time analytics and wide area visualization, and Phasor Grid Dynamics Analyzer (PGDA) for off-line analytics. As part of the WAMS project, 6 months of PMU data was analyzed. Analysis of PMU Data helped to identify data quality issues and the PMUs that are reporting bad data. In addition to data unavailability, it was learnt that there can be several causes of bad quality data such as communication failure, data dropouts, synchronization error etc. Once the root-cause is identified, then corrective actions were taken to improve data quality. Event analysis was performed for identifying the location and cause of disturbances, assessing impact of disturbances on the system and studying the response of the system to different disturbances. Types of events that were analyzed include generation loss, load loss, phase angle events, faults, sustained low voltage events and oscillations. Electromechanical system modes including interarea oscillations and some local oscillations were identified. These oscillations could not be observed in the low-resolution data from the EMS/SCADA system. Oscillations were categorized by frequency, damping, energy and dominant signals. PGDA was used to perform the event analysis, oscillation analysis and to establishing alarm thresholds. Analysis was done to identify alarm settings that
The phasor measurement unit (PMU) which is actually a key tool in providing situational awareness, operation and reliability of the power system network.
The modern-day power grid aims at providing reliable and quality power, which requires careful monitoring of the power grid against catastrophic faults.
Therefore one promising way is to provide the system a wide protection and control named as “Wide Area Measurement and Control System” /PMU is required.
Phasor measurement unit and it's application pptKhurshid Parwez
The effective operation of power systems in the present and the future depends to a large extent on how well the emerging challenges are met today. Power systems continue to be stressed as they are operated in many instances at or near their full capacities. In order to keep power systems operating in secure and economic conditions, it is necessary to further improve power system protection and control system. Phasor measurement unit (PMUs), introduced into power system as a useful tool for monitoring the performance of power system, has been proved its value in the extensive applications of electric power system. In response, a research program that is specifically aimed at using PMU to improve the power system protection and control. To ensure that the proposed research program is responsive to particular industry needs in this area, and participants of the workshop identified two major research areas in which technological and institutional solutions are needed: 1) PMU implementation, 2) PMU applications. It’s recommends research, design, and development (RD&D) projects in this report. The objective of these projects is to improve the reliability of local and wide transmission grid by enabling and enhancing the system protection and control schemes by using PMU measurement data, reduce the economic burden of utilizes to implement PMUs.
Oman Electricity Transmission Company SAOG (OETC) owns and operates the main transmission grid of the Sultanate of Oman and is also responsible for balancing generation and demand. Currently, OETC has deployed 22 Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) as part of Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS). OETC WAMS comprises of Electric Power Group's enhanced Phasor Data Concentrator (ePDC) for data concentration, Real-time Dynamics Monitoring System (RTDMS) for real time analytics and wide area visualization, and Phasor Grid Dynamics Analyzer (PGDA) for off-line analytics. As part of the WAMS project, 6 months of PMU data was analyzed. Analysis of PMU Data helped to identify data quality issues and the PMUs that are reporting bad data. In addition to data unavailability, it was learnt that there can be several causes of bad quality data such as communication failure, data dropouts, synchronization error etc. Once the root-cause is identified, then corrective actions were taken to improve data quality. Event analysis was performed for identifying the location and cause of disturbances, assessing impact of disturbances on the system and studying the response of the system to different disturbances. Types of events that were analyzed include generation loss, load loss, phase angle events, faults, sustained low voltage events and oscillations. Electromechanical system modes including interarea oscillations and some local oscillations were identified. These oscillations could not be observed in the low-resolution data from the EMS/SCADA system. Oscillations were categorized by frequency, damping, energy and dominant signals. PGDA was used to perform the event analysis, oscillation analysis and to establishing alarm thresholds. Analysis was done to identify alarm settings that
The phasor measurement unit (PMU) which is actually a key tool in providing situational awareness, operation and reliability of the power system network.
The modern-day power grid aims at providing reliable and quality power, which requires careful monitoring of the power grid against catastrophic faults.
Therefore one promising way is to provide the system a wide protection and control named as “Wide Area Measurement and Control System” /PMU is required.
Phasor measurement unit and it's application pptKhurshid Parwez
The effective operation of power systems in the present and the future depends to a large extent on how well the emerging challenges are met today. Power systems continue to be stressed as they are operated in many instances at or near their full capacities. In order to keep power systems operating in secure and economic conditions, it is necessary to further improve power system protection and control system. Phasor measurement unit (PMUs), introduced into power system as a useful tool for monitoring the performance of power system, has been proved its value in the extensive applications of electric power system. In response, a research program that is specifically aimed at using PMU to improve the power system protection and control. To ensure that the proposed research program is responsive to particular industry needs in this area, and participants of the workshop identified two major research areas in which technological and institutional solutions are needed: 1) PMU implementation, 2) PMU applications. It’s recommends research, design, and development (RD&D) projects in this report. The objective of these projects is to improve the reliability of local and wide transmission grid by enabling and enhancing the system protection and control schemes by using PMU measurement data, reduce the economic burden of utilizes to implement PMUs.
Wide area monitoring systems (WAMS) are essentially based on the new data acquisition technology of phasor measurement and allow monitoring transmission system conditions over large areas in view of detecting and further counteracting grid instabilities.
The Advanced Distribution Management System – ADMS – brings together distribution management system (DMS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and outage management system (OMS) technologies , along with control room applications, on one, secure platform with a single user interface. With this comprehensive mission critical solution, the electric utility can monitor, analyze and control the distribution network to improve the level and quality of service.
At its core is the network model representing the as-operated state and based on the as-built state defined by the geographic information system (GIS). A load flow algorithm responds quickly to data sourced from throughout the network to analyze the balanced, unbalanced and dynamically changing network in real time. Users across the network – operators, dispatchers, management, planning engineers and others – have consistent visualization of model results in geographic, schematic and single-line diagram views. State estimation validates viewed data and estimates non-telemetered points to achieve a complete network representation.
With this accurate network model and a portfolio of robust functionalities, the utility is empowered with continuous, real-time analysis of the operational state of the network that enables self-healing capabilities. Demand can be managed through reduction of technical losses; by forecasting near-term load and applying volt/VAR control for peak shaving; and by securely integrating and managing distributed energy resources, including energy storage, to flatten the daily load curve. These and other options enabled by ADMS are key to managing demand in the face of increasing energy usage, surging energy costs and network infrastructure instability due to aging.
The ADMS represents the evolution of control room technology that will help utilities mobilize to meet increasing consumer demand and environmental obligations and reap many of the benefits all stakeholders expect from their smart grid investments.
GSM based electricity theft contol system, it also intimates the concernded person when theft is happening. It sends messages about the unit consumed too.
These slides present the possibility of cloud computing application to smart grid. Later other technologies like IOT and bigdata applications will be discussed.
Real Time Dynamics Monitoring System (RTDMS): Phasor Applications for the Co...Power System Operation
The electric power grid in the US has evolved
from a vertically integrated system to a mixture of
regulated and deregulated competitive market system.
Grid oversight is transitioning from local utilities to an
assortment of transmission companies, regional
Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional
Transmission Organizations (RTOs). Regulatory and
economic pressures have caused new transmission
construction to lag the growth in demand. These forces
have increased pressure on electricity markets and
caused operators to maximize the utilization of the
system. The result is an operating environment where
operators are faced with quick changing and previously
unseen power flow patterns and operational conditions
with limited information available for real-time
operation and decision-making. Furthermore, the aging
These slides focus on preliminary discussions about wide area monitoring, protection and control in future smart grid. Later in the class i will show its application through simulation and case study results.
Wide area monitoring systems (WAMS) are essentially based on the new data acquisition technology of phasor measurement and allow monitoring transmission system conditions over large areas in view of detecting and further counteracting grid instabilities.
The Advanced Distribution Management System – ADMS – brings together distribution management system (DMS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and outage management system (OMS) technologies , along with control room applications, on one, secure platform with a single user interface. With this comprehensive mission critical solution, the electric utility can monitor, analyze and control the distribution network to improve the level and quality of service.
At its core is the network model representing the as-operated state and based on the as-built state defined by the geographic information system (GIS). A load flow algorithm responds quickly to data sourced from throughout the network to analyze the balanced, unbalanced and dynamically changing network in real time. Users across the network – operators, dispatchers, management, planning engineers and others – have consistent visualization of model results in geographic, schematic and single-line diagram views. State estimation validates viewed data and estimates non-telemetered points to achieve a complete network representation.
With this accurate network model and a portfolio of robust functionalities, the utility is empowered with continuous, real-time analysis of the operational state of the network that enables self-healing capabilities. Demand can be managed through reduction of technical losses; by forecasting near-term load and applying volt/VAR control for peak shaving; and by securely integrating and managing distributed energy resources, including energy storage, to flatten the daily load curve. These and other options enabled by ADMS are key to managing demand in the face of increasing energy usage, surging energy costs and network infrastructure instability due to aging.
The ADMS represents the evolution of control room technology that will help utilities mobilize to meet increasing consumer demand and environmental obligations and reap many of the benefits all stakeholders expect from their smart grid investments.
GSM based electricity theft contol system, it also intimates the concernded person when theft is happening. It sends messages about the unit consumed too.
These slides present the possibility of cloud computing application to smart grid. Later other technologies like IOT and bigdata applications will be discussed.
Real Time Dynamics Monitoring System (RTDMS): Phasor Applications for the Co...Power System Operation
The electric power grid in the US has evolved
from a vertically integrated system to a mixture of
regulated and deregulated competitive market system.
Grid oversight is transitioning from local utilities to an
assortment of transmission companies, regional
Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional
Transmission Organizations (RTOs). Regulatory and
economic pressures have caused new transmission
construction to lag the growth in demand. These forces
have increased pressure on electricity markets and
caused operators to maximize the utilization of the
system. The result is an operating environment where
operators are faced with quick changing and previously
unseen power flow patterns and operational conditions
with limited information available for real-time
operation and decision-making. Furthermore, the aging
These slides focus on preliminary discussions about wide area monitoring, protection and control in future smart grid. Later in the class i will show its application through simulation and case study results.
SCADA at the core of power systems monitoring and control
Power systems monitoring requires increasing amounts of information coming from multiples sources, manually or automatically, and at different
points in time, each with their own resolution and quality.
SCADA collects all this information in real time to:
• Process in terms of validity, usability, and accuracy and store them for future analysis.
• Combine into a flexible, simple or complex calculation.
• Provide operators and other control systems with flags and alarms, which are valuable for action and control.
• Feed advanced applications such as network security and generation dispatch.
SCADA at the core of power systems monitoring and control
Power systems monitoring requires increasing amounts of information coming from multiples sources, manually or automatically, and at different
points in time, each with their own resolution and quality.
SCADA collects all this information in real time to:
• Process in terms of validity, usability, and accuracy and store them for future analysis.
• Combine into a flexible, simple or complex calculation.
• Provide operators and other control systems with flags and alarms, which are valuable for action and control.
• Feed advanced applications such as network security and generation dispatch.
Within data parameters, phasor measurement units generate a huge flow of points due to high scanning resolution (1ms). SCADA can now
integrate phasor data.
SCADA: the critical block for EMS
SCADA is the core of any monitoring and control system.
This is where all information captured from the
field via manual reading, automated control systems
in substations and power plants, and from other control
centers is processed in real time before being
made available for further analysis and action by operators.
Without SCADA running, EMS and operators
have reduced network vision and cannot operate at
full capacity. SCADA reliability is built-in by design
with one or multiple redundancy levels to ensure
100% availability.
Incorporating WAMS technology for
increased awareness and network
flexibility
Traditionally, SCADA receives data points scanned at
1s or higher resolution depending on communication
bandwidth and local scanning capabilities such as RTU,
a substation automation system, or a power plant
control system. The latest WAMS technology, under
deployment for the last 10 years, has reached a level
of reliability and performance enabling it to manage a
large number of phasor measurement units (PMUs) data
scanned at 1ms from thousands of PMUs implemented
across the network. Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC)
and PhasorProcessor are also now part of the SCADA
solutions GE offers to its customers.
Coupling existing EMS applications with a Phasor
application inside an Advanced Energy Management
System (AEMS) unlocks additional network flexibility
in terms of blackout prevention and network power
capacity required as intermittent renewable generation
grows.
SmartWAM (Wide-Area Monitoring System with Synchrophasor) is a wide-area monitoring system that performs the collection, processing and displaying of synchrophasor data on the basis of Phasor Measurement Unit technology to reliably and timely monitor large-scaled power systems. SmartWAMS can be deployed independently of SCADA system to assist the SCADA system in the monitoring, operation, computation and off-line analysis.
A Novel Back Up Wide Area Protection Technique for Power Transmission Grids U...Power System Operation
Current differential protection relays are widely applied
to the protection of electrical plant due to their simplicity,
sensitivity and stability for internal and external faults. The proposed
idea has the feature of unit protection relays to protect large
power transmission grids based on phasor measurement units. The
principle of the protection scheme depends on comparing positive
sequence voltage magnitudes at each bus during fault conditions
inside a system protection center to detect the nearest bus to
the fault. Then the absolute differences of positive sequence current
angles are compared for all lines connecting to this bus to
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phasor measuring technology with high speed communication
system and time transfer GPS system. The simulation of the interconnecting
system is applied on 500 kV Egyptian network using
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As the electrical grid becomes more advance and additional control systems are being implemented on the distribution system, more advanced study methodologies must be deployed.
These deployed systems can be active or passive. An active system receives feedback of current system conditions, usually to a centralized intelligence system, and make decisions based upon current system configuration. In a passive system the control system does not receive live feedback on actual system conditions and control parameters are set using a specific set of static conditions. These are studied and designed for a certain system conditions and operating outside these static conditions can produce unknown results.
POWER Engineers has been performing Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) studies on Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) medium voltage system using Synergi Electric distribution models. CVR systems provide energy reduction to end-customers by reducing the voltage across the distribution system. This energy reduction is achieved by delivering voltage closer to the rated voltage that equipment is designed to utilize, thus allowing it to run more efficiently
Joint State and Parameter Estimation by Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) techniqueIJERD Editor
In order to increase power system stability and reliability during and after disturbances, power grid
global and local controllers must be developed. SCADA system provides steady and low sampling density. To
remove these limitation PMUs are being rapidly adopted worldwide. Dynamic states of power system can be
estimated using EKF. This requires field excitation as input which may not available. As a result, the EKF with
unknown inputs proposed for identifying and estimating the states and the unknown inputs of the synchronous
machine.
Similar to WASA and the Roadmap to WAMPAC at SDG&E (20)
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21, rue d’Artois, F-75008 PARIS CIGRE US National Committee
http://www.cigre.org 2019 Grid of the Future Symposium
WASA and the Roadmap to WAMPAC at SDG&E
T. RAHMAN
San Diego Gas & Electric Company
USA
E. A. UDREN, D. NOVOSEL, D. BRANCACCIO
Quanta Technology, LLC
USA
SUMMARY
There is rapidly-growing industry interest in the potential uses for streaming synchronized
measurements from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). Vendors and users continue to develop and
deploy new applications and infrastructure to take advantage of the new measurement data. San
Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) is among users who are deploying Wide-Area Situational
Awareness (WASA) systems in which PMUs distributed across the grid are streaming data to control
centers for situational awareness of dynamic wide-area behavior of the grid to system operators, and as
a tool for engineers to perform post-event analysis of disturbances and operating events along with
system model validation. These uses are just a part of a broader roadmap for many important new
applications using PMU measurements. Over time, synchrophasors will serve as the new unified
wide-area data-gathering platform serving system observation, operating data collection for SCADA
and EMS, control, automation, market functions, asset management and maintenance support, and
even high-speed wide-area fault and failure protection functions that supplement and back up local
fault protection. A full-function PMU-based deployment is described as a Wide-Area Monitoring,
Protection, Automation, and Control (WAMPAC) system.
The paper reviews the applications of operator situational awareness, SCADA and EMS data
gathering, disturbance monitoring and analysis with model tuning, system state and condition
monitoring, adaptive RAS, fire and hazard risk reduction, wide-area backup fault protection and swing
mitigation, wide-area voltage stability monitoring and mitigation, wide-area voltage control, and PMU
system self-monitoring. It characterizes the key elements and architecture of a wide-area PMU system
from the PMUs through communications networks with redundancy and timing services to centralized
processing locations or clouds. The SDG&E roadmap for WASA and WAMPAC is followed by an
overview of industry direction for PMU measurements as the platform for all wide-area observation,
monitoring, protection, automation, and control.
KEYWORDS
Synchrophasor, PMU, PDC, SPDC, WASA, WAMPAC, Situational Awareness, Wide-area control,
Wide-area protection, Wide-area monitoring
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The utility industry was initially slow to realize the full potential of synchronized measurements and
concepts since they were first presented as synchrophasors from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs)
by Phadke, Thorp, and Adamiak in 1983. However, in the last decade, there is rapidly growing
industry activity in and appreciation of the potential uses for synchronized measurements using PMUs
which compute streams of these values from voltage and current measurements at power system nodes
and branches in substations. Vendors and users are continuously developing new applications, while
industry forums such as the North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) help with the sharing
of concepts and guidance to support a growing list of utilities deploying PMUs along with client
systems to observe and use the measurement streams.
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Figure 1 – SDG&E WASA System Architecture
San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) is among many users who are deploying Wide-Area
Situational Awareness (WASA) systems in which PMUs distributed across the grid stream data to
control centers for situational awareness of dynamic wide-area behavior of the grid to system
operators, as shown in Figure 1. The WASA deployment is evolving from an earlier grid observation
system built over the last decade, now extending to most transmission lines and other system elements.
The existing system serves as a tool for engineers to observe system behavior, and to perform post-
mortem analysis of disturbances and operating events. These uses are fundamental but are just a part
of a broader roadmap for many important new applications using PMU measurements, as we will
explain. Over time and across the industry, synchrophasors will serve as the new unified wide-area
data-gathering platform serving system observation, operating data collection, control, automation,
market functions, asset management and maintenance support, and even high-speed wide-area fault
and failure protection functions that supplement and back up local fault protection. A full-function
PMU-based deployment is described as a Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection, Automation, and Control
(WAMPAC) system.
WASA and WAMPAC Functions
System Operator Situational Awareness
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WASA includes control center displays for operators – voltage and phase profiles and variations,
stability warnings, and normal versus unusual flow patterns. Figure 2 shows an example.
Figure 2 – Typical WASA display for system operator
Future SCADA and EMS Support
SCADA and EMS and familiar legacy grid-monitoring production systems on which operators rely
have been separate from PMU-based WASA systems, which have been typically placed alongside and
not incorporated into these systems. However, we note that PMUs installed on all lines and apparatus
comprise a whole new parallel data-gathering platform. In place of transducers, RTUs, and IED data
concentrators sending uncorrelated magnitude measurements every few seconds, the network of PMUs
are streaming values at 30 or 60 (or even 120) value sets per second, with exact time and angle
relationships across the grid defined by precision synchronized time tags in each value set. PMUs
gather phase and sequence values of voltages and currents, power flows, frequency, and rate of change
of frequency (ROCOF). Binary and analog point values can be included in the data streams. With the
addition of a control messaging transport service on the same network, a dense PMU infrastructure can
be the future data platform for EMS and SCADA. All of today’s EMS and SCADA applications will
perform equally well or better with the vastly richer, denser, and synchronized sources of data. In fact,
some traditional EMS are now integrating down-sampled synchrophasor measurements.
Disturbance Monitoring and Analysis
WASA also includes the functions of Disturbance Monitoring Equipment (DME) used today for post-
event analysis of system behavior and disturbances. Records of streamed measurements – the
envelopes of the raw power-system signals tracked and recorded continuously with frequency and
ROCOF – yield data describing disturbed-system oscillations, swings, and propagation of disturbance
fronts across the system. These data captures are very useful to understand system outages (including
wide-area blackouts) and operating problems, but are also used to validate system models as the
response of the model to the monitored triggering event is compared to real system behavior. Some
system analysis tool suppliers are working on automation of model tuning from event data. Good
models, in turn, are key to accurate and safe determination of operating conditions and limits.
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System State and Condition Monitoring
Conventional EMS state estimation aims to adjust erroneous measurements and fill in approximations
of missing values. A dense PMU-based data-gathering system can go far beyond this, reporting its
holistic assessment of power apparatus states and pinpointing inaccurate measurements for improved
state estimation and alarming of failures. New condition-monitoring applications of a WASA or
WAMPAC system use comparisons of related adjacent or redundant measurements to substitute
accurate values, as well as to dispatch corrective maintenance activities.
Automated Wide-Area Remedial Action or System Integrity Protection Schemes
The tuned, accurate system models serve as a basis for Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) or System
Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS) which can be carried out on the WAMPAC platform by including
a high-speed wide-area control messaging service. Today’s RAS and SIPS are typically based on
planning studies of potential system failures, carried out in advance, and may not work as required if
the system is in a different state than that used in the study. With real-time, high-speed state
measurements, the protective scheme can respond directly to disturbance indicators like phase angle
across a transmission corridor, rather than only on a load flow higher than a set index value after a line
trip. Separately, other advanced users are already demonstrating the capability of combining multiple
RAS in a single centralized system so logic is easily updated and so that behavior for complex events
is coordinated (e.g. Southern California Edison Centralized RAS or C-RAS).
Fire and Hazard Risk Reduction
SDG&E has been deploying, for several years, installations of its distribution Falling Conductor
Protection (FCP) system based on PMU measurements along the protected circuit communicating
synchrophasor voltage and current streams back to a substation phasor data concentrator (PDC) and a
controller platform. The phasor data collection and control system comprises a distribution-scale
WAMPAC. The controller is programmed to analyze voltage and current phase angle relationships
across the length of the circuit and can detect if a phase conductor has broken and is in the process of
falling. The FCP system detects and locates a conductor break in a typical time of 200 to 300 ms and
sends trip commands to circuit switching devices on both sides of the break via IEC 61850 GOOSE
messaging. A typical distribution conductor at a height of 30 feet or 9 m takes 1.37 s to reach the
ground; FCP deenergizes the failing conductor by the time it has fallen about 4 feet or 1.2 m. A
difficult-to-detect high-impedance ground fault is completely circumvented; deenergizing the
conductor while still high in the air avoids the risk of human contact or vegetation fire ignition. The
FCP concepts are being more broadly deployed across the SDG&E transmission grid.
Wide-Area Fault and Swing Protection
A recent work has addressed how phase-current synchrophasor streams gathered from a high-density
PMU deployment can be compared in a wide-area current differential scheme, detecting transmission
faults a few cycles more slowly than local high-speed primary relays, but much faster than
intentionally-delayed remote-zone backup relays. A centralized PMU-based backup fault protection
controller observes current summations across the region and backs up local relays. After observing
prolonged fault duration, the backup scheme surgically removes faults left by failed relays or stuck
breakers, tripping only the breakers required to deal with the specific local protection malfunction.
The scheme does not inhibit the performance of local high-speed relays, and it isolates the fault with
less time delay and more specifically focused tripping than would be carried out by distance backup
relays. Non-communicating distance relay zones can be left in service as a safety net – they will not
get a chance to operate while the PMU-based wide-area protection scheme is in service.
Wide-area synchrophasor-based backup protection is sensitive and effective even for systems with low
or unpredictable fault current caused by major penetration of inverter-based generation, and it does not
trip for stable or unstable system swings. Voltage phasors, which play little or no role in wide-area
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fault protection, can be used to detect swings to execute out-of-step tie tripping or islanding schemes
with predictable and planned separation points.
Wide-Area Voltage Stability Management
PMUs have been incorporated in various voltage stability monitoring and contingency analysis tools
and deployed by users such as SDG&E. Voltage stability issues often occur as a result of an increase
in load demand. If the increase is slow, an EMS model-based Voltage Stability Assessment (VSA)
will detect the problem and alert operators. If faster, dynamic voltage instabilities occur, PMU-based
VSA yields quicker and more accurate detection of the potential unstable contingencies requiring
faster response.
Furthermore, if the unforeseen system instability events develop very fast, measurement-based voltage
instability detection tools, such as Real-time Voltage Instability Indicator (RVII), could be a
complement to model-based VSA tools, detecting active power margins and voltage instability
indicators in real time. RVII tools do not require a complex power system model; they are thus not as
sensitive to model inaccuracies and can detect voltage instability in less than a second. These tools are
also suitable for implementation in SIPS, or instead of undervoltage protection in simpler cases. RVII
is able to identify unstable cases even in the case of high system voltage (for which undervoltage load-
shedding relays would not operate) and distinguishes stable cases in the presence of very low voltages
(for which an undervoltage relay might operate undesirably). See [5] and [6].
Wide-Area Control
Wide-area holistic control of the grid becomes feasible when the PMU system includes mission-
critical high-reliability data collection, high-speed control communications, and accurate system
models to predict the result of control actions. Voltage profiles can be adjusted in response to variable
renewable generation via integration of measurements across a wide area and evaluation in a control
model, to achieve the best or safest overall result rather than optimizing for one measurement point or
a fixed combination of measurements. Fixed and variable (FACTS) reactive devices can be
continuously switched or adjusted for the best holistic profile. Load flow control and dynamic
stability enhancement are expected in the future.
PMU System Self-Monitoring
While many users do not think of self-monitoring of a protection and control system as a power-
system application, it is critical to a sustainable deployment, and supports the mission-critical roles
that a WAMPAC system will serve. The complete PMU system, whose components are reviewed
below, is built from self-monitoring IEDs, controllers, and communications channels using repetitive
or heartbeat communications services whose integrity can be monitored and alarmed. The overlapping
of the IED and communications service monitoring means that an entire WAMPAC system can
monitor its integrity and accuracy in every branch, can alarm specific failures for maintenance
attention, and can engage backup measurements from available data. Figure 3 shows a contemporary
display of PMU and PDC data stream availability. Maintenance testing is never required, except for
peripheral breaker tripping, control, and status input interfaces which can be validated by remote
control actions or system state observations. If protective relays with PMU measurement capability
are used, the fault protection operations and protection system maintenance checks of these interfaces
can serve WAMPAC P&C with no additional maintenance.
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Figure 3 – Display of PMU data stream availability monitoring
PMU System Infrastructure
Figure 4 shows a typical PMU system architecture. Elements of the system include:
Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) – stand-alone PMUs are available, and PMU functionality may be
included in other measurement platforms such as digital fault recorders. Today, many protective relay
types from multiple manufacturers are available with synchrophasor data streaming capability. The
advantage of using relays is that an array of status inputs and breaker trip and control outputs are also
available, including communications protocol support that makes the relays available for high-speed
wide-area control execution. Also, relays are installed on all system apparatus, often in redundant
pairs, so that a complete and redundant set of measurements can be available for the full range of
future WAMPAC applications. All phasor measurements are performed in compliance with
synchrophasor standards – the latest single international standard is the joint IEC-IEEE Standard
60255-118-1 Edition 1 of 2018. Widely used in existing PMUs is IEEE C37.118.1-2011, or the
measurement specifications in the older IEEE C37.118-2005.
Phasor Data Concentrators (PDCs) – PDCs are data-handling platforms that can merge data streams
from many PMUs in a substation into a concise data format for transmission to the control center or
remote location over a single communications channel. PDCs can locally archive recent data for post-
event analysis even when the communications path fails, although single communications outages
may become less of an issue with redundant high-reliability data transmission required for WAMPAC
functions like backup fault protection. To avoid a single point of failure, a substation installation will
include at least two PDCs as well as redundant isolated PMU sources for critical points, and separate
isolated communications connections.
Communications network – WAMPAC requires robust reliable communications between PMUs or
PDCs and control centers or central processing locations. Many utilities are building these systems for
teleprotection and other mission-critical operational needs. Today, many PMU users are streaming
serial PMU data over SONET (DS0 on T1 or higher-bandwidth) paths. Some utilities, including
SDG&E, are now deploying MPLS Ethernet wide-area communications networks with multiple
redundant routers and a mesh of alternative communications paths leading to the central control and
monitoring location of the WASA or WAMPAC system as shown in Figure 5. MPLS can transport
synchrophasor streams in Ethernet-packet or serial-simulation formats. Transport latencies are
dropping well below 10 ms and are well-suited to WAMPAC protection and control function
implementation. Redundant PMUs and PDCs operating over highly reliable redundant channels are
practical today – it is feasible to invest to build the infrastructure to support WAMPAC.
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Control center data processing and computing systems – Field Gateway PDCs collect single or
redundant PMU data streams from each substation or field location. Each Field Gateway PDC can in
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turn supply customized data streams to multiple redundant computing platforms that isolate
applications, as well as to remote clients such as neighbor utility system WASA/WAMPAC needing
boundary information, or to independent system operators. Redundant or dual tri-mode redundant
computing platforms at the central control locations gather data, make evaluations and decisions, carry
out protection and control via downward command messaging, generate displays and reports for
operators and maintenance personnel, and archive data for disturbance monitoring or post-event
analysis of system model accuracy. Going forward, the synchrophasor data processing infrastructure
comprises a private cloud computing platform whose components may not be physically co-located as
is familiar today.
Communications protocols – most synchrophasors are streamed today in accordance with IEEE
C37.118.2-2011, or the similar communications specifications of the older IEEE C37.118-2005. Both
serial and Ethernet transport options are supported, with the requirement that users map or configure
data streams and transport paths manually. WASA used by operators for decisions, or WAMPAC,
require NERC CIP-compliant security via secure networking appliances or other data protection tools
in an organization-wide security program. While some utilities use non-routable serial transport as a
cybersecurity protection means today, we do not expect this to be effective or acceptable in the future.
Solutions to these issues are now provided by the latest edition of IEC 61850-8, which includes the
Routable Sampled Values (R-SV) service for synchrophasor transport using key-based authentication
of packets for strong cybersecurity, and IT WAN standard services for automated detection and
configuration of publisher-subscriber network connections. Using IEC 61850-8 transport of
synchrophasor streams calls for a new generation of PMU communications interfaces, and will yield
easiest application, highest security, and compatibility with IEC 61850 function-level engineering
methods that eliminate manual static point mapping. Other new communication protocols such as Grid
Protection Alliance’s Streaming Telemetry Transport Protocol (STTP) are being developed to provide
additional choices for delivering high speed synchronized measurements to client systems.
Time distribution – PMUs require precise synchronized time, accurate to microsecond levels or better
across the region of time-tagging of synchrophasor measurements. GPS satellite time receivers have
been the standard tools that have enabled wide-area precise synchronization of time tags for regional
observation, and thus raised interest in WASA and WAMPAC. However, looking forward, GPS is
increasingly vulnerable to disruption or attack as it supports mission-critical protection and control
functions or operator decision-making. GPS receiver manufacturers have greatly enhanced the
robustness of the clock function against spoofing or disruption using local and system-wide
monitoring algorithms and multiple satellite array reception.
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Figure 6 – Network Distribution of Precision Time Signals
Even more promising for security is the distribution of precision time over the same Ethernet WAN
used for transport of phasor streams and control messages. Redundant coordinated master clocks
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distribute time signals across the grid to PMUs using IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and
power utility application profiles IEC 61850-9-3 and IEEE C37.238. The master clocks can still be
synchronized to GPS time, yet power-system-wide time synchronization continues even if the GPS
reception is disrupted. Redundant GPS synchronized clocks at each substation can prevent disruptions
that are the result of hardware failure. However, if the disruption is the result of GPS spoofing an
additional trusted time source is required. SDG&E is planning to deploy a network PTP solution as
shown in Figure 6.
SDG&E Program
New and challenging grid operational reliability and safety concerns drive the advancement of
synchrophasor methods at SDG&E, which has been gradually and continually building high-density
PMU and data-gathering infrastructure for a decade. Real-time observation of the system operating
state on basic client platforms aimed at P&C engineers has uncovered situations that were not visible
to operators working on the legacy SCADA/EMS platform with its RTU and data-concentrator
sources of low-speed unsynchronized data. Engineers have also used the PMU data for post-mortem
analysis of system events. This visibility by engineering has shown the benefits of PMU data
collection, raising the interest of system operators and leading to the deployment of a major control
center WASA installation. Figure 7 shows an example of a STATCOM oscillation problem that was
not visible to system operators using SCADA data, yet was causing customer service problems.
Figure 7 – STATCOM Oscillation Captured by Engineering PMU Data Client System
As WASA is established, engineers continue development of infrastructure and applications building
toward the future of unified WAMPAC applications including those listed above. Figure 8 shows
SDG&E’s WASA and WAMPAC development roadmap. As we explained above, fire risk reduction
and improved system protection are among areas of development and deployment at this time.
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Figure 8 – SDG&E WASA and WAMPAC Roadmap
Future Directions - Industry WAMPAC Roadmap Example
SDG&E has been following an industry roadmap for synchronized measurement system deployment
which begins with basic infrastructure and familiarization and builds into WASA as it advances
towards WAMPAC on a unified platform serving multiple users and mission-critical protection and
control applications. The roadmap steps are:
1. Deploy a limited array of PMUs communicating data to engineers, to get practical first-
deployment experience. Observe transmission and/or distribution grid operation and share
new findings. Continue to add measurement sites as new relays are deployed.
2. Develop an organizational roadmap of use cases or applications, and required infrastructure to
support them, with a sustainable investment plan. Coordinate with and contribute
specifications to the organization’s communications and IT investment and evolution plans.
3. Specify and deploy WASA in collaboration with System Operations, with a view towards
evolution to WAMPAC. Operators will develop skills and achieve the benefits of situational
awareness, SCADA/EMS validation or enhancement. Operators, engineers, and planners get
the troubleshooting, DME, post-mortem analysis, and model validation benefits of WASA.
4. Deploy development and training platforms and environments, to be augmented going forward
as new WASA and WAMPAC functions are integrated.
5. Tune system dynamic and short-circuit models as operating experience accumulates. Develop
and validate secondary-system modeling (P&C systems, instrument transformer and control
connections, communications performance) for a variety of reliability-enhancement and
reliability standards compliance purposes.
6. Develop and deploy supplemental non-redundant high-speed WAMPAC protection functions
for trial use, WAMPAC system validation, and troubleshooting of reliability or data quality
problems.
7. Build out fully-redundant PMU data collection and communications. Manage performance to
high levels of reliability. Include timing distribution in the design.
8. Add P&C functions for faults, failures, instability, and RAS/SIPS scenarios. These can be
connected to trip after an initial operational validation.
9. Develop wide-area and high-speed control algorithms and test in simulations using tuned
models, as well as on streamed real-time data. Close the control loops to enter the full
WAMPAC era.
10. The reliable and redundant PMU synchrophasor gathering system with return control paths is
the new data platform onto which SCADA and EMS can now migrate to achieve a unified
system for monitoring, control, automation, and protection.
11. When deploying PMU applications, evaluate the use of synchronized measurements for
distribution applications such as voltage monitoring and control, DER monitoring, or
intelligent load shedding.
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