IEC 61850 Station Program, Construction Testing & Construction, Commissioning Lessons Learned

April 3, 2012 Jerry Fortier Northeast Utilities Mike Kloiber Burns & McDonnell

61850 Design Background

New IEC61850 P&C Design Began Fall 2009 Core Team Formed to Evaluate/Select Equipment & I t Integration ti Services S i Executive E ti Sponsorship S hi of fP Program Design Refinement Process Northeast Utilities (NU) Simulator was Commissioned to Facilitate Training & Testing Additional Design Refinement Process

First NU 61850 Deployment Greater Springfield Reliability Project

Greenfield Sites Cadwell C d ll S Switching it hi Station St ti 115kV five - Position Ring Bus Fairmont Switching Station 115kV five -Bay Bay Breaker-andBreaker and a-Half Yard Brownfield Sites Agawam Substation 115kV four - Bay Breaker-and-a-half Yard ( (345kV Yard Added) ) North Bloomfield Substation 115kV /345kV (345kV Yard Additions)

Cadwell Substation Bundled Approach

First Greenfield Rollout of 61850 Design Located in Massachusetts Turn-Key T K Project P j t Relay Panels, Panels Automation Equipment and Integration Services Bundled Together g in Procurement Process

Cadwell Substation - Testing

Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Complete Integration System Testing at Siemens Facility y Full Network Connectivity of Equipment Two Teams Working in Parallel Automation Team Northeast Utilities Utilities, Siemens Relaying Team Northeast Utilities, Burns & McDonnell, Siemens, American Electric Test

Cadwell Substation Testing

Automation Team Testing Responsibilities Data Concentrators Human-Machine Interface Units Alarm Al &C Control t lF Functionality ti lit Network Monitoring/Reporting Redundancy/Fail-over Testing Relaying Team Testing Responsibilities Logic Diagrams Relay Settings GOOSE Messaging Trip T i Ti Timing i Redundancy/Fail-over Testing

Cadwell Substation - Testing

Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) Acceptance Testing of Relay Protection Elements Complete Integration System Testing Onsite Same Teams as FAT Additional Interface Testing with Area Control Center Direct Tripping/Operation of Breakers & Motor MotorOperated Disconnect Switches

Cadwell Substation - Status

Tested & Commissioned Test-Energized g Turned Over to Area Control Center Awaiting Construction of Remaining Transmission Lines

Agawam Substation Un-Bundled Approach

First brownfield rollout of 61850 Design Located in Massachusetts Began g as 115kV four-Bay y Breaker-and-a-half Yard Reclassification as Bulk Power Station Relay Panels & Automation Equipment Procured separate from Integration Services Contract 61850 Rollout in Steps

Agawam Substation 61850 Rollout

First Step Included 61850 Infrastructure, Infrastructure Line and Two Breakers Using g Interface Relays y to Seam 61850 to Hardwired Circuits Capacitor Bank Conversion A Bus Conversion Bay-4 Line and Breaker Conversion New Bay-5 Bay 5 Integration Total of 12 Steps in Rollout Sequence

Agawam Substation 61850 Rollout

After

Before

Agawam Substation - Testing

Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) FAT at Panel Vendor similar to Cadwell Other Steps FAT at NU Simulator SAT Similar to Cadwell Onsite Testing/Commissioning Required Additional Scheduled Outages Increased Sensitivity to Working in Energized Station

Agawam Substation - Status

Just Entered Outage for Step 5 Convert B Bus to 61850 Convert 115kV Terminal and three Breakers Complete Integration of Bay-4 Next Step Will Integrate: Two new Autotransformer Banks Four new Gas Gas-Insulated Insulated Bus Segments New 2-Bay 345kV Yard

Remaining GSRP Stations - Status

Fairmont Switching g Station Greenfield 115-kV - Five Bay Breaker-and-One-Half Design Phase 2 Construction Scheduled to Commence Later This Year Testing and Commissioning Scheduled for Mid Year 2013 North Bloomfield Substation Brownfield 115-kV/345kV 345kV Additions Phase 2 Construction Scheduled to Commence Mid Year 2012 Testing and Commissioning Scheduled for Early 2013 NU to Self-Perform IEC61850 Integration Configuration

Lessons Learned
DOCUMENTATION IS CRITICAL! Develop and Maintain: Sequencing Documents Pl th Plan the W Work k Work W k the th Plan Pl Testing/Commissioning Procedures Configuration Control Procedures As-Built Document Procedures Maintain Open Communications with Project Management Outage Planning Area Control Center Engineering E i i Testing Group

Lessons Learned
Minimize Variables During Implementation Firmware Changes Un-necessary System Enhancements or Functionality Brownfield Sites: Have a Restoration Plan Understand Impact of Each Step

Lessons Learned Robust Training

NU IEC 61850 Five Day Training Module Day 1: IEC61850 Basics IEC61850 Standards and methods Managing and configuring devices GOOSE principles Station LAN basics Siemens Substation Automation Lab system architecture

Day 2: IEC61850 Relay Configuration and GOOSE Messages ICD file properties and creation Goose Message definition and configuration g and interconnecting g techniques q Networking Programming the Siemens Bay Controller with DIGSI

Lessons Learned Robust Training Cont.

Day 3: DIGSI 61850 System Configuration and the SCD File Managing multi-vendor ICD files Using DIGSI to manage the GOOSE messages Creating the global SCD (system Definition) file Review of the Lab system SCD

Day 4: SICAM PAS Data Concentrator Overview and Configuration SICAM PAS UI the user interface SICAM PAS Configuration managing databases Importing and configuration using the SCD file Mapping data to the other interfaces (Control Center, HMIs) Lab system Database

Day 5: SICAM PASCC HMI Overview and Project Management Overall project structure and tools within PASCC/WinCC I Importing ti and d management t of f the th SICAM PAS database d t b Basics of Project creation and management Lab system features and functionality

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