Smart Substation for RES Integration

Thierry Buhagiar
Smart Substation Project Manager
GRID+STORAGE 25/11/15
The Flow of Energy: a European Concern
The Flow of Energy – also a Local Concern

TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Consumers DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

New uses, need for

interactive response
to demand and
embedded generation

Producers
Consumers

Increasing mix of less

predictable and more
intermittent sources

TRANSMISSION BALANCING/ DISTRIBUTION

SETTLEMENT
A five layers project
 Agenda – Today and Tomorrow

New Technologies IEC 61850 Global Solution

• Primary Equipment • Control, protection, zone voltage
Optical CT, Neelogy CT control, metering, automation
Low power VT All the equipment at the site
Ester transformers Utilities monitoring/control (electrical,
Digital breakers, power transformers water, heating, weather, fuel tank…)
and disconnectors Condition monitoring, Ambient
monitoring
• Secondary Equipment
• Access control, virtual fence…
Process Bus
Optical communication • Dynamic Line Rating
Full monitoring • Fault Analysis and Location
New universal HMI • Settings management
Point on wave switching • Teleprotection, Wide Area
Redundancy, cybersecurity, Automation
interoperability
 Poste Intelligent – Blocaux 225 kV / 90 kV AIS

Challenge
• Refurbishment of existing protection & control system for two large
substations (10 Bays 225 kV, 12 Bays 90 kV)
• Innovative solutions bringing new functionality, complete
substation digitizing (electrical, mechanical, environmental data)
• Manage redundancy, move away from hardwiring
• Manage inter-substation automation

Solution
• Full DCS and protection system (DS Agile), process bus 1Gb/s
• Condition monitoring, real time situational awareness
• Wide Area Control Scheme, security system
• COSI-CT + COSI-VT

Key benefits
• Minimized outage time, improved equipment availability
• Increased safety, prevent cyber-security attacks
• Improved inter-changeability, enhanced flexibility and grid operability
• Increased reliability with inherent system redundancy
• Optimized maintenance, remote substation monitoring
• Reduced relay footprint 80 TE -> 40 TE, for smaller panels
 What’s New at Blocaux? Detailed View
• Virtual busbar VT
• Optical CT technology, compact CT
and VT footprints
• No more copper hardwiring for
command and control
• Flexibility in physical separation of
instrument transformers and IEDs
• New approach for redundancy and
reliability issues – self-healing
• Harmonised protection scheme for
225 and 90 kV
• External kiosks for digitising only in
the yard, intelligence is centralised
• Multifunction IEDs
subscribing to multiple SV
streams
• New distribution of the LN
in the LD for fewer devices
and failure tolerance
• Permanent SV generator for
remote commissioning
and testing
• Permanent spare parts for
automatic reconfiguration
in case of failure
• Containerised substation
methodology – System A,
System B
Monitoring
 What’s New at Blocaux? Operational Benefits
• Local state estimator
• Redundancy controller
• Weather-based dynamic rating for
transformers and OHL
• Data historian for long term analysis (asset
management)
• Digital Paralleling Voltage Regulation
• WACU and 61850 WAN for extended
benefits across neighbour substations
• Automatic fault analysis and location
Fault analysis - location converted to geographical
data (GPS) with tower identification
Correlation with lightning activity
Relay tripping time and autoreclosure delay
compared to technical specifications
Healthy OHL identification
Help for rapid restoration plan and relay failure
identification
 Extended perimeter WACU 2 based solution :
Total situational awareness and command
capacities

70 km
• + 12 substations
Poste raccordé au réseau
• 1000 MW RES (80 horizontal

windfarms)
• 600 MW max Extended
consumption
90 km
• 21 OHL (500 km)
• Distant mixed
104/61850 gateways
with local automation
and emergency
Smartsubstatio
restoration capacities
French perspectives for RES integration in 2020
Building permits for wind farms
A HIGH DENSITY WIND FARMS AREA

RES CAPACITY 552 MW (2014) ->866 (2017)

CONSUMPTION MAX 538 MVA
CONSUMPTION MIN 116 MVA

OVERLOAD RISK

Démonstrateurs PI
 Wind and power correlation

Vitesse du vent à BEAUVAIS en moyenne 1h lorsque Pmoy 10mn > 90 % Pmax

Valeur moyenne = 9,46 m/s
Année 2012 - 95 h/an = 1% du temps
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moyenne 1h
en m/s

Vitesse du vent à BEAUVAIS en moyenne 1h lorsque Pmoy 10mn > 80 % Pmax

Valeur moyenne = 8,22 m/s
Année 2012 - 347 h/an = 4 % du temps
16

Vitesse du vent à BEAUVAIS en moyenne 1h lorsque Pmoy 10mn > 70 % Pmax

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Valeur moyenne = 4,3 m/s
Année 2012 - 542 h/an = 6,1 % du temps
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Wind influence on ampacity

Evolution de l'intensité permanente admissible dans un câble ASTER 570 mm2

en fonction de l'ensoleillement et de la vitesse du vent
Température extérieure = 5°C et angle du vent à 45 '

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 DLR simulations on BLOCAUX AREA

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RTE develops its own DLR system including the congestion management
tools and risk mitigation without any sensor on the cables
 Congestion management

• Today :
−maintaining all the interconnections inside the perimeter is
highly risky by windy days (N-1 probability high and load
transfer on 90 kV needs a fast response in a time not
compatible with scada abilities)
−Clustering the area is the only solution to avoid the risk and
guarantee the security for electrical risk -> weakened grid
resilience (N-1 not guaranteed, shutdown for the cluster,
consumers and producers are impacted)
• Tomorrow :
−Local tools for fast response : acceptable duration
estimation, load flow for topology optimisation, «surgical »
load shedding plan activation and emergency shutdown
tools, potentially storage management (not market oriented)
−Interconnections maintained all the time, no need to
anticipate de N-1, the system does it in real time
 Poste Intelligent Conclusion

• A project dedicated to global enhanced performances

(reliability, maintainability, fault tolerance, self healing,
OPEX and CAPEX, sustainability,…)
• Delivering extended capacities for RES integration
• Future proof using the latest state of art technologies and
open to the IP world (IoT, Big Data…) in a secured private
network
• Giving the substation strong decision tools and command
abilities on a large area
• Real time oriented solutions, with a local treatment for a
local problem, integrating thousands external parameters
• Tools for overload detection and load shedding or storage
capacities activation
The substation in one container…

Preassembled container -> Power and optical

connection
-> Plug And Play
->Remote testing capabilities (test generator
integration)
 The new shelters

Outdoor shelters (convertor bay for one feeder)

Central system bays for one system
•MU 320 (classical CT/VT) or NXMU (optical CT et LPVT)
•SCU C266 based (CPU4) (idem BCU and switch…)
•RPH3 for breaker synchronisation
•Full redondancy
•Full remote control
 Primary Equipments Testing the optical CT 245 kV

Testing the LP VT 245 kV

Optical CT/VT 100 kV prototype

Thanks for your attention
Any questions?