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Using NERC’s SAFNRv2 Application to Maintain Situational Awareness Sam Chanoski, Manager of BPS Awareness 12 th International Workshop on Electric Power Control Centers June 4, 2013
Using NERC’s SAFNRv2
Application to Maintain
Situational Awareness
Sam Chanoski, Manager of BPS Awareness
12th International Workshop on Electric Power Control Centers
June 4, 2013
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Agenda
• NERC’s Bulk Power System Awareness Group
• What We Do
• What We DON’T Do
• How We Do It
• SAFNRv2 – About
• SAFNRv2 – Capabilities
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BPSA - What We Do
• Monitor conditions affecting the bulk power system • Operational • Weather • Other (droughts, space weather, cyber and physical
security, wildfires, fuel supply, labor issues, industry trends, policy)
• Identify and communicate possible near term threats to the continued reliable operation of the BPS
• During crisis events, facilitate communications • Common Operational Picture with the Regions and RCs • Inform government agencies • Work with ES-ISAC to support their government sector
coordination
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BPSA - What We DON’T Do
• Operate
• Control
• Intervene in anyone’s real-time operations
• Anything involving compliance
• 24/7 shift work
• Stare at screens waiting for something to happen
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BPSA - How We Do It
• Analysis of a high volume of disparate and sometimes conflicting information
• Human SMEs provide the “so what?” from the tools’ data • Inherently an art and a science
• Learn something from every report and every event to build organizational memory
• Lots of automated tools…
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SAFNRv2: About
• Three distinct components
• Sharepoint-based home page
• PowerWorld Retriever-based Visualization Client
• eDNA Trending Client
• >200kV transmission facilities, >500 MW generators
• MW, MVAR, bus voltages (maintains 7-day history)
• ICCP data streams from Reliability Coordinators
• Not a conventional power system model
• No individual substation topologies
• No state estimation or contingency analysis capability
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SAFNRv2: Voltage Contour
US voltage contour (200kV+), May 29, 2013, 1116 EDT
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SAFNRv2: Details
Pittsburgh, PA - May 29, 2013, 1119 EDT
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SAFNRv2: Line Trending
Jacksons Ferry-Broadford 765kV line outage, May 27, 2013
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SAFNRv2: Voltage Trending
Chief Joseph Power Station 500kV Bus Voltage, May 29, 2013
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SAFNRv2: WECC Paths
WECC Rated Paths (200kV+), May 29, 2013, 1330 EDT
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Questions
Sam Chanoski
Manager, BPS Awareness
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