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Control Room Solutions Task Team

Contacts

Michael Nugent

Affiliation
NextEra Energy
Position
Co-Lead

Kliff Hopson

Affiliation
Bonneville Power Administration
Position
Co-Lead

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Mission

The Control Room Solutions Task Team's (CRSTT's) mission is to work collectively with other NASPI task teams to advance the use of real-time synchronized measurements for the purpose of improving control room operations and grid reliability. This team will utilize its experience and regional diversity to provide advice, direction, support and guidance to NASPI stakeholders and other organizations involved in the development and implementation of real-time synchronized measurement applications. 

Videos

NASPI Oscillation Detection and Voltage Stability Workshop, Houston, TX, October 22, 2014; NASPI's YouTube Channel.

List of PMU versus SCADA Video Events Summary Videos (Updated April 2018, rev6).

Documents

CRSTT: Using Synchrophasor Data to Determine Disturbance Location

Release Date
ERICA Number
NASPI-2019-TR-003
Document Subject Area
NASPI Basic Synchrophasor Technology Information and Best Practices
Disturbance Detection
Synchrophasor Data and Applications
Description
This paper describes how synchrophasor technology can be used in the Real-time Operations Horizon to determine the origin, nature and severity of disturbances on the electric power system. Specifically, this paper considers how synchrophasor data and their application can be used by System...
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CRSTT: Using Synchrophasor Data for Oscillation Detection

Release Date
ERICA Number
NASPI-2017-TR-007
Document Subject Area
Oscillation Detection
Oscillation Events
Oscillation Commercial Applications
Description
This paper describes certain functional entity roles and responsibilities related to oscillation detection monitoring, considers how synchrophasor technology may be used to identify actual oscillation events or issues, and describes some of the related commercial applications that are currently...
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EA003 - Using Synchrophasor Data to Identify a Failing Potential Transformer

Release Date
Document Subject Area
Event Analysis
CRSTT Use Case
Description
An ATC Operations Engineer was using synchrophasor data to review fault operations and stumbled across the odd voltage signature shown below from a PMU monitoring one of our 69 Kv substations. One of the three voltage phases would “drift” away from the other two phase voltages and then eventually...
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EA004 - Using Synchrophasor Data to Identify System Voltage Oscillations

Release Date
Document Subject Area
Event Analysis
CRSTT Use Case
Description
We have observed significant sustained voltage oscillations on the ATC transmission system that were not visible in our SCADA data. These oscillations are normally in the 0.6 – 0.75 Hz range and are lightly damped. They can persist for weeks and then disappear for weeks and even months.
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EA001 - Using Synchrophasor Data to Analyze Fault Event Causes

Release Date
Document Subject Area
Control Room
Event Analysis
CRSTT Use Case
Description
A transmission fault was cleared properly by the appropriate line protection equipment. When reviewing the synchrophasor voltage data for the fault from a nearby station (see Figure 1 below) it became obvious that the initiating event for the transmission system fault was most likely on the...
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