Building a Project Jon Jensen Associate Staff Engineer W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

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Building a Project

Jon Jensen Associate Staff Engineer

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Project Files

• What is a Project File• Naming Convention

– (Area Number)_(Company Name Acronym)_(Project Description)• 40_BPA_PDCI Upgrade.prjx (PSS/E projects are *.prj)

• Project Types– Base Case Corrections (possible extra for different MVA/kV

brackets)• Base Case Correction• Generation < 20 MVA• Generation ≥ 20 MVA• Transmission/Load < 100 kV• Transmission/Load ≥ 100 kV

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Project Files (Cont.)

• Status Types– Base Case Corrections• Powerflow• Dynamics (Not available at this time)• WECC (WECC Staff use only)

– Generation and Transmission/Load• Planned• Proposed• Exploratory

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Project File Creation

• Demonstrate Project file creation with cases described yesterday– .epc file upload in PSLF then export again– Master Base Case (14HS4 Operating Case)– Sample Project Case

• Describe Unassociated Criteria Flag– Used to block reporting of changes to things not

associated with compare by criteria

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Project File Submission• Login to the BCCS• Import Project

– Submission and Validation process• Upload

– Preliminary

• Submit– Pending approval

• Area Coordinator– Pending acceptance

• WECC Staff– Accepted

• WECC Staff– “Committed”

• Reference Documents– WECC BCCS Data Submitters Guide– Guidelines-notes-draft ver 0.4

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Project File 16lw1 Test Case

• What we are asking you to do:– Create the project for this test case based off of

Area, Owner(s) or Zone(s). • transition from 14hs4 case to 16lw1

– How will projects be submitted?• Select appropriate area/owner(s)/zone(s) for data

submission– SRP Example Zone 999 – Missing data