Status Update on PRC-006-1 UFLS Methodology Planning Subcommittee

February 26, 2012

Status Update
MISO is presently collecting UFLS data and developing methodology Islanding Criteria and Methodology Workshop to be held the week of March 18-22

Islanding Criteria Requirements

R1

PCs must have documented islanding criteria that consider

Historical events System studies Any island formed intentionally by a Special Protection System Each Regional Reliability Organization (RRO) in MISO must be studied as an island

R2.1
R2.1 R2.2 R2.3

Draft Islanding Criteria

MISO shall consider the following to identify one or more islands: Historical events System studies
MISO Annual LOLE Study: Load Resource Zones (LRZ)

A subset of each RRO in MISO Other considerations

Historical NERC Regional Council boundaries Inspection: interfaces with weak or few ties; natural geographic boundaries Reserve sharing zones

Considerations
What should be the minimum size island MISO studies?
NERC Event Severity Categories:
Category 2: unintentional island of 100-4999 MW Category 3: unintentional island of 5000-9999 MW Category 4: unintentional island of 10000+ MW

How far back should we look for historical events? Please advise us as soon as possible of pertinent historical islands in your footprints Respond to Tyler by March 12 These questions will be finalized after the Islanding Criteria and Methodology Workshop

Major Historical Events

September 18, 2007

MRO

Major Historical Events

June 25, 1998

NERC

NERC Regional Entities

MISO is required to consider each Region as an island

Historic NERC Regional Councils

Historic boundaries may guide judgment in island interface selection

Planning Coordinators
MISO will coordinate studies with adjacent PCs, but will not study ComEd as an island

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Transmission Owners
Boundaries may guide judgment in island interface selection (Load Resource Zones shown)

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Reserve Sharing Zones

Boundaries may guide judgment in island interface selection

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Reserve Sharing Zones

Boundaries may guide judgment in island interface selection

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Future: Analytical island identification

The problem of identifying islands with weak ties and/or load imbalance neatly conforms to some multilevel graph partitioning algorithms An analytical approach might give insight into possible islands that are missed by inspection Proposed as a future project

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Roadmap Summary
2013
PC develops islanding criteria in collaboration with stakeholders PC builds UFLS database PC performs design assessment, identifies any necessary changes to existing regime UFLS Entities, GOs, TOs implement revised Program

Every year
PC maintains database

Every five years

PC performs design assessment, identifies any necessary changes to existing regime UFLS Entities, TOs, GOs implement revised Program

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2013 Plan
Jan: Feb: Mar: Apr: Jul: Aug: UFLS Entity, GO data request Draft Islanding Criteria Refine Methodology at Workshop Populate UFLS Database Finalize scope and launch study Complete study Draft UFLS Design Assessment Comment period Comment response Final UFLS Design Assessment UFLS Program finalized PRC-006-1 becomes effective Implementation schedule communicated
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Sep:
Oct:

Immediate next steps

Please respond to UFLS data request by March 8 Please contact Tyler tgiles@misoenergy.org or David dduebner@misoenergy.org by March 12 with your input on study methodology and islanding criteria Email us TODAY if you would like to attend the Islanding Criteria and Methodology Workshop the week of March 18-22 and you have a date preference

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