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1 Transmission Reliability Engineering

Automated Model Builder (AMB) and AFCs

Presented By: Nate Schweighart TVA

2008 ITO LG&E/KU Stakeholder Meeting

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AFC Methodology-Modeling Process AFC Methodology-Modeling Process

• Every day TVA creates a large number of

transmission models

• 48 – Next 48 hourly cases every hour
• 146 – hourly cases four times a day
• 35 – daily cases four times a day
• 18 – monthly cases once a day
• Total 1894 cases per day

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AMB – Automated Model Builder AMB – Automated Model Builder

AMB

Transfer Distribution Factors Initial AFCs TVA FTP Site

Generation Outages, Generation Dispatch, Load Forecast, Tag Dump, Path definitions, Flowgate Definitions, etc…

MMWG based cases

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Case Conditioning Case Conditioning

• Updating topology
• Removing any transmission outages, Fixing N.O line list
• Removing generation outages
• Correcting interchange
• Account for base case transactions in the process
• Equivalize DC bubbles, superfluous areas
• Correcting Control Area numbering
• Making cases solve AC for applicable horizons
• Making sure bus naming matches IDC
• Checking log files

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Input Data Input Data

• Transmission Outages

– Comes from SDX and updated every hour – Includes all LGEE neighbors

• TVA, AEP, OVEC, CIN, SIGE, BREC, EKPC, CE

– plus select tier 2 entities

• Generation Outages

– Comes from SDX and updated every hour – Includes all LGEE neighbors

• TVA, AEP, OVEC, CIN, SIGE, BREC, EKPC, CE

– plus select tier 2 entities

• Load Forecast

– Comes from SDX and updated every hour – Includes all LGEE neighbors

• TVA, AEP, OVEC, CIN, SIGE, BREC, EKPC, CE

– plus select tier 2 entities

• Tags

– Comes from NERC Tag Dump file and generated every hour

• Path Definitions

– Static file changes only when paths change

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Input Data Input Data

• Flowgate Definitions

– Updated to reflect flowgate definition changes

• Generation Block Dispatch

– Updated to reflect changes in generation dispatch

• Base cases
• Flowgate monitor files
• Area subsystem files
• Normally open line list
• Base case transaction static files

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Calculating AFCinit and TDFs Calculating AFCinit and TDFs

• Make topology changes – line
• utages, generation outages
• Use generation dispatches or

scale load in areas to match load forecast

• Solve cases
• Calculate all areas’ generation

to load impact on flowgate list to obtain Initial AFCs – Initial AFCs: the remaining flowgate capacity considering base case flows from the case creation process

• Use Path Definition file to

determine distribution factors for all Path combinations on all flowgates

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AFC Data Exchange AFC Data Exchange

• Initial AFC’s and TDF’s for all product types

and horizons are exchanged daily for a total data transfer of 491MB of data

• The hourly non-firm process data which is

exchanged hourly covering the next 48 hours makes up over 406MB of the total data transfer

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AFC Derivation AFC Derivation

• AFC are derived from the flowgate rating.
• AFC = flowgate rating – base case flow impacts

– TRM – CBM – Existing Transmission Commitments (ETC) impacts.

• ATC = Most limiting (AFC / Associated TDF)

TVA’s Part

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Non-Firm Scheduling Horizon Non-Firm Scheduling Horizon

Midnight Noon Midnight Noon Midnight Noon 1 pm 4 am Schedules Schedules Schedules 6pm Noon 1 pm Schedules Reservations Reservations Reservations Reservations At 12 noon daily, non-scheduled transmission capacity is released by using schedules instead of reservations. Reservations are used beyond midnight of the next day. Schedules Reservations

Noon

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TVA AFC Process Enhancements TVA AFC Process Enhancements

• Switched to new AMB engine called TARA

created by PowerGem

– New engine has more robust solution methods – Cases can be created and solved much quicker – Vendor continues to upgrade software as new enhancements are created

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Questions? Questions?