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B5 / D2 Liaison Meeting 2022

John Wright UK B5 Regular Member

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Agenda

10:00 – Opening

    • Welcome & House Keeping
    • Safety Moment
    • Introduction to CIGRE Study Committees B5 and D2

10:20 – Safety Moment

10:30 – Study Committee D2 activity update

10:45 – Study Committee B5 activity update

11:00 – Technical presentations (D2)

11:30 – Networking break

12:00 – Technical presentations (B5)

12:30 – Joint D2/B5 activities

12:45 – Q&A/AOB

13:00 – Networking Lunch

14:00 – Close Session

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Thank You

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Safety Moment

Slips, Trips and Falls

  • According to the Health & Safety Executive, Slips, trips, and falls accounted for around a third of employee injuries in 2020/21.
  • They are the most common cause of non-fatal workplace injury. Falls from height are the most common cause of fatalities.
  • Statistics don’t exaggerate; these injuries all happened to real people while at work.
  • Both employers and employees have a duty to protect people’s wellbeing at work. In order to prevent slips, trips, and falls, employers must put in place control measures and procedures for preventing hazards from ever materialising, and it’s down to employees to uphold and follow them.
  • The HSE provides hazard spotting checklists, risk mapping tools and methodology for assessing risks. For more information go to www.hse.gov.uk/risk

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Cigre B5 Study Committee

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Technological field of activity

Power system protection, substation control and automation, remote control systems and equipment, metering systems and equipment.

 

Scope (Not limited to:)

Asset management life-cycle phases – design to decommissioning

Performance, specification, testing and the application of testing techniques

Theory, principles and concepts, functionality, technological development, design

Application guidance, construction, erection, installation.

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Cigre B5 Structure

SC B5 Chair: Rannveig Løken (Norway)

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SC B5 Secretary: Richard Adams (UK)

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B5 UK Regular Member & B5 UK Technical Panel Chair : John Wright (UK)

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B5 UK Technical Panel : (Cross Section of The Industry, NGN, Women's Network - Support RM / Events / Technical Papers / WG Members / Strategy & Direction)

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Working Group Regular Member, Corresponding Members, Mirror Groups

      • 23 Active Working Groups
      • Over 50 individuals contributing – Direct or Via Mirror Groups
      • 2 to 3 New WG every two years

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Paris 2022 Update

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  • The Paris Session 2022 for Study Committee B5:
    • 30th August (PS3) and 2nd September(PS1/PS2)
    • Presentations related to papers from the three selected preferential subjects. 
  • PS1 - Addressing protection related challenges in network with low-inertia and low fault current levels
    • Special reporter: Sean McGuinness (IE) - 12 Papers from 10 Different Countries.

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  • PS2 - Applications of emerging technology for protection, automation and control
    • Special reporter: T. Bi (CN) Presented by Nirmal Nair (NZ)- 27 Papers from 23 Different Countries.

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  • PS3 -Integration of intelligence on substations (Joint PS with B3)
    • Special reporter: P. Kreutzer (CH) - 24 Papers from 11 Different Countries

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Paris – Highlights and Industry Challenges�

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  • PS1 - Addressing protection related challenges in network with low-inertia and low fault current levels
    • Are current setting adequate
    • Changes in relay settings can mitigate issues
    • How to manage settings in an evolving grid
    • Simulation can be advantageous
    • Most important lesson – understand your grid and relays

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Paris – Highlights and Industry Challenges�

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  • PS2 - Applications of emerging technology for protection, automation and control
    • Challenges –
      • DSAS and LPIT – Architecture (HSR/PRP), AIS, GIS, PIU ?
      • Staff training and availability,
      • Up take of technology,
      • Technology obsolescence management,
      • Time sync,
      • Industry adoption – moving beyond pilots
    • Benefits –
      • Centralised P&C=>Virtualisation
      • Standardisation - reduction in engineering and installation time
      • Remote maintenance and testing
      • Standards development

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    • Large scale REN adoption has provided opportunity to trial, test and adopt new PAC technologies.

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Paris – Highlights and Industry Challenges�

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  • PS3 - Integration of intelligence on substations (Joint PS with B3)
    • Hybrid solutions makes testing more complex – need appropriate tools, user friendly
    • Backwards compatibility in products and tools
    • Patching / Upgrades i.e., cyber maybe more frequent
    • Standardisation
    • Collaboration between users and suppliers
    • Reduce cost and time through whole project

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To deal with complex future automation, data points and grid/system level stability: Trending towards discrete protection at local level with system level WAMS to guide local decision

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Feedback - UK Topics of Interest�

  • Centralised Protection – This is also widening into “virtualised protection”– move from D to T?
  • Changing roles DNO to DSO etc – dealing with boundaries
  • Use of Digital Twins
  • Operation of distance protection with the increase on REN. Will the current algorithms respond correctly Impact of Cyber Security on PAC`s?
  • Continuing evolvement of IEC standards
  • Need for Standardisation
  • Backwards Compatibility – Ease of Upgrade – Patching
  • Cyber
  • Need for Standard and Easily Useable Tools
  • Process bus roll out – when and at what voltage will it become business as usual?
  • Integration of Protection and Communication systems
  • Need for Training & Recruitment

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New Working Groups – Proposed�

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  • New WG1 – Obsolescence management for PACS
  • New WG2 – Education, Qualification and Continuing Professional Development of Engineers in Protection, Automation and Control
  • New WG3 – Protection Principles to be applied in Distribution Networks in the Future

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The invitation for nominating new members will be circulated in due course once the Terms of References for the new WGs are finalised by the study committee.

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Technical Brochures - https://e-cigre.org/�

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Reference

Working Group

Title

845

B5.52

Analysis and comparison of fault location systems in AC power networks

BG 13

Green Book

IEC 61850 Principles and Applications to Electric Power Systems

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Future Events & AOB

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  • There is a technical book/standard reference list hosted by AU B5 in KMS. B5 UK Looking at best way to adopt this.

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  • Next Event: Australia, Cairns Symposium, 4 – 7th September 2023

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  • For further details on B5 UK, TP, WG, etc contact: john.w.wright@ge.com

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