Working Group on Power System Dynamics Measurements
Chair: Joe Chow
Vice Chair: Luigi Vanfretti
Secretary: Matthew Gardner
Meeting Call 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor, DC
July 28, 2014, 2-4 pm, – Potomac 4 (see program for final room location)
Agenda:
1. Opening: welcome and introductions
a. Self-Introductions, routing of signup sheet
b. Appointment of note-taker if secretary absent
c. Review and acceptance of agenda
d. Review minutes of last meeting, Vancouver 2013
Attendance: 63, according to signup sheet
Panel discussion: New Synchrophasor standards and Guides: Measurements, Data
Transfer, Concentration and Implementation Requirements
Tutorial: see next page – attended by 42 paid attendees.
2. Review work of the Working Group and alternative goals and paths of the WG.
3. Liaison Reports
a. IEEE Power System Relay Committee (Ken Martin)
b. IEEE Power System Instrumentation and Measurements Committee (Harold Kirkham) Liason
report to be provided by Dr. Rietveld from VSL (Netherlands)
c. NASPI (Jeff Dagle) – Matt Gardner filling in
d. CIGRE (Mahendra Patel/ Vladimir Terzija (WGB5.14) & Luigi Vanfretti (WGC4.34))
4. Technical business of the meeting
a. Future tutorial(s): There will also be a full-day Synchrophasor Tutorial on Wednesday July 30,
2014. See announcement attached on the last page.
b. Future panel session(s)
c. information sharing
5. Leadership transition
6. Technical presentations – “European research activities in synchrophasors”
 Prof. Mario Paolone, EPFL Switzerland
 Prof. Vladimir Terzija, University of Manchester
 Dr. Ing. Gert Rietveld, Dutch Metrology Institute
 Prof. David Laverty, Queen’s University of Belfast
 Prof. Luigi Vanfretti, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
7. Set time and place of next meeting, if need be.
IEEE Working Group on Power System Dynamics Measurements
Scope: Development of procedures, methods and techniques for detecting, recording, and analyzing power system dynamic
performance, for use in system controls, for event reconstruction, for validation of correct operation of equipment, controls,
and protection, and for developing and improving simulation models. The Working Group (WG) will consider transducers,
computation equipment and algorithms, communications, and other portions of systems for these measurements. The WG will
disseminate its results appropriately, including use of panel sessions, technical paper sessions, and preparation of WG papers.
The WG will coordinate its activities with other IEEE and CIGRE bodies, including the Power System Relaying Committee and the
Power Systems Instrumentation and Measurements Committee.
History of the scope: It was developed by Richard Schulz in January, 1997 iterated with and improved by Carson Taylor,
proposed to the newly formed Working Group at the Winter 1997 meeting in Columbus, Ohio. It was approved by the Power
System Dynamic Performance Committee at that meeting. Richard Schulz was the chair of the working group for the first 10
years.
2014 PES GM Tutorial
Implementation of Synchrophasor Systems
Date: Wednesday July 30, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Price: Early Bird $295, Regular $395. Student Early Bird $100, Student Regular $150
Instructors: Vahid Madani (Organizer and Chair), Alexander Apostolov, Gerald FitzPatrick,
Allen R. Goldstein, Roger Hedding, Mital Kanabar, Roger King, Harold Kirkham, Zhenyu
Huang, Ken Martin, Sakis Meliopoulos, Thomas Morris, R. Jay Murphy, Damir Novosel, Manu
Parashar, Ravi Subramaniam
The distinction of PMU technology comes from its unique ability to provide synchronized
phasor measurements of voltage and current signal from widely dispersed locations in an
electric power grid. From a system reliability standpoint, these real-time measurements
allow early identification of potential problems both locally and regionally. From a broader
perspective, synchrophasor technology offers means to solve a growing number of
challenges and has lot of scope in future, thus attracting the industries and research
communities throughout the world. Recent investments in the Synchrophasor technology
have energized the industry to demonstrate the long range promises.
IEEE PES Power System Relaying Committee and the North American Synchrophasor
Initiative (NASPI) Performance Standards Task Team (PSTT) have leveraged expertise to
present a tutorial on Synchrophasor systems Implementation.
This tutorial is intended for power system practitioners considering investment in
synchrophasor technology and supporting business case for large scale deployment. In
addition to the benefits enabled by the technology, some of the topics covered include
phasors, synchronization mechanisms, computation processing and accuracy, phasor data
concentrators (PDCs), and interoperability.
Relevant industry standards and guides, phasor data communication and archival,
approaches and architectures to build wide-area measurement systems, and applications
using synchrophasor data such as situational awareness, advanced warning systems,
adaptive protection, state estimation, and voltage stability monitoring will be presented. The
tutorial will also include a review of the IEEE guides for installation and testing of PMUs and
PDCs, and the need for conformance to the standards and calibration of the entire
measurement chain.
2013 PES GM Toturial
Synchrophasor Fundamentals and Applications: Leveraging the Investment (tutorial)
Tuesday, 23 July, 2013 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Renaissance Salon A
Sponsored By: IEEE PES and Power & Energy Education Committee
Tutorial Summary:
Instructors: Dan Brancaccio, Joe Chow, Fred L. Elmendorf, R. Matthew Gardner, Scott Ghiocel, Kevin
Jones, Innocent Kamwa, David M. Laverty, Ken Martin, Mario Paolone, Scott Stapels, James S. Thorp,
Kjetil Uhlen, Luigi Vanfretti, Austin D. White
The past five years have seen an immense public and private interest, investment, and cooperation in
the synchrophasor technology space. Many electric transmission owners and operators in North
America were awarded grants to deploy a great number of PMUs across their respective service areas,
along with the related communications and IT infrastructure.
The availability of this new infrastructure can enable the development and implementation of new
applications that utilize time-synchronized dynamic measurements. However, unless properly managed,
challenges involved in designing, deploying, and operating and, ultimately, extracting value from this
new capital- and data-intensive synchrophasor infrastructure can be daunting. While the research
indicates tremendous value in leveraging synchrophasor technology, a divide still exists between the
current state of the technology and the possibilities that synchrophasor technology enable.
The purpose of this tutorial is to address the fundamentals of synchrophasor technology and
synchrophasor-enabled applications at a practical level. The tutorial will be delivered by hands-on
practitioners of the technology along with those in the research community. Covering topics across the
spectrum of the technology space, the tutorial opens with a session on synchrophasor computation
fundamentals, continues in sessions focusing on PMU installation and testing, designing IT and
communications for synchrophasors, deploying synchrophasor applications from the lab to the field,
managing the data, state estimation, and culminates in a session on synchrophasor-based wide-area
control implemented in a utility.