Wind Integration Study, Recommendations

  1. Recommendation 1 (Assess Voltage reactive support capabilities for existing wind farms and recommend enhanced operations tools for Dynamic Reactive Reserves and develop criteria requirements for real-time operations.); assigned to VTF. Timeframe tbd.
  2. Identfiy existing physical capabilities on wind farms (Assigned to SPP Staff; existing MWG AI)
  3. Assess the need of the BES (Assigned to VTF)
  4. AI: RR to be written that will require Voltage Control on new GIA, considering all fuel-types (Assigned to SPP Staff)
  5. AI: RR to be written that will require Voltage Control on existing GIA, considering wind farms (Scope to be recommended by the VTF)
  6. Long-term goal potentially install additional Dynamic Reactive Reserves
  7. Recommendation 2 (Evaluate and recommend real-time operations tools to calculate and monitor real-time voltage stability limits using an applicable real-time software suite); assigned to SPP Staff. Offline mid-May 2016. Online end of 2017.
  8. Current SPP Effort
  9. Offline VSAT incorporated into SPP Ops planning weekly mid-May
  10. Online VSAT scoped by end of August 2016 with project in 2017
  11. VTF (on hold):
  12. Education sessions, bring in vendors, what best practices others internally to membership or externally in the industry
  13. Deliverables:
  14. TOPs may increase voltage awarenesss, tools, & processes
  15. SPP incorporate offline/online voltage stability assessments in Operations
  16. Recommendation 3 (Provide additional flexibility to the Reliability Coordinator for NDVER redispatch); assigned to SPP Staff.
  17. Develop Revision Request to have systematic blast or other communication mechanism to NDVERs considering Reliablity-only issues due to high transfers
  18. Need to have a feedback loop to ensure receipt of any systematic reliability instruction
  19. Consider utilizing additional module in RSS or MCS
  20. Deliverable:
  21. New RR for systematic Operating Instructions to NDVERs: Focus will be to have a systematic OOME, with an additional confirmation of receipt enhancement.
  1. Recommendation 4 (Develop additional planning criteria to reflect real-time Operations conditions via more robust scenario development); assigned to TWG/ESWG/TPITF
  2. Develop an Operations track in the SPP Planning processes
  3. Deliverable:
  4. Vetted/established process, procedure, timelines, and governing language that incorporates Operations feedback to the Planning process that may include, but is not limited to:
  5. Resolve all SPP IROLs
  6. Minimize Operations Transmission reconfigurations
  1. Assess cost/benefit of resolving congestion on permanent flowgates
  2. Assess reoccurring seasonal n-1 loading
  3. Resolve all CIP-014 facilities to a non-critical state
  4. Minimize at risk load due to n-1+ scenarios
  1. Recommendation 5 (Accelerate ITP projects); assigned to SPP Staff via TWG/ESWG/MOPC
  2. Change recommendation wording to ‘Evaluate ITP projects for acceleration based on study results’
  3. Recommendation 6 (Evaluate the bulk electric system impacts with the addition of Solar PV in combination with wind); assigned to ORWG in conjunction with the Wind Integration Study Phase 2
  4. Recommendation 7 (Perform an additional evaluation of PMU applications to provide real-time situational awareness); assigned to SPP Synchrophasor Strike Team as an Enterprise project
  5. ORWG would like to understand benefits of real-time use cases in PMU
  6. Deliverable:
  7. RR to include PMUs on new applicable GIAs (Nameplate threshold to be considered)