Synchrophasor Visual Integration and Event Evaluation for Utilities (SynchroVIEEU) with High Penetration of Renewables
- Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI (United States)
The Hawaiian Electric Companies (Companies), operating independent grid systems on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai and Lanai, have been contending with some of the highest levels of renewable generation from both utility-scale and distributed generation resources. Renewable penetration levels exceeding 50% of generation are some of the highest in the nation and are changing the system characteristics and requiring operational changes to grid management. The Companies have aggressively leveraged federal, multi-state and industry grant funding to demonstrate new technologies for monitoring, visualization, forecasting and analysis to inform transformation needs and to improve operational awareness, especially at the distribution level. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) supported efforts to facilitate integration of renewables, synchrophasor devices were deployed on the islands of Hawaii and Maui in 2010. The devices have potential to provide Hawaii Electric Light Company (HELCO) on Hawaii Island and Maui Electric Company (MECO) with additional information to support post-event analysis and to help quantify observed area-wide changes in voltage and frequency on the systems. Consistent with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) FOA objectives, the goal of this project was to accelerate the integration of synchrophasor information into production grade data visualization and analysis platforms/models to inform timely, efficient and reliable operations of a modern grid in light of high penetrations of renewable resources. The project comprised a two-year development effort to investigate the integration and visualization of synchrophasor field data into production-ready transmission and distribution proactive modeling efforts and a common data analysis platform application currently being used by the Companies. Conceptually, the project was about getting the right data to the right people at the right time in an easily accessible and timely environment.
- Research Organization:
- Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
- Contributing Organization:
- Referentia Systems, Inc.; DNV GL; Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
- DOE Contract Number:
- OE0000705
- OSTI ID:
- 1494612
- Report Number(s):
- 1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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