Abstract:
As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding and other unrelated infrastructure investment plans in the utilities it is expected that the numb...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding and other unrelated infrastructure investment plans in the utilities it is expected that the number of installed Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and PMU-enabled Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) will dramatically increase in the next 5-10 years. New applications using synchronized data will become an important part of the overall power system operation. The mitigation of the risk of using such elaborate high precision measurement infrastructure requires appropriate testing for interoperability and application performance at both the device and system level. This will assure accuracy consistency across multiple IED types, as well as future scalability and upgradeability, hence avoiding the costly infrastructure becoming a stranded asset. This paper addresses such demand as well as the methodology and tools that are used to verify the interoperability and application performance. The benefits and expected outcome are also outlined.
Published in: 2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
Date of Conference: 16-20 January 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 April 2012
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