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Québec Control Area Procedure Real and Reactive Power Tests at Generating Stations of 50-MW or Higher Capacity
November 11, 2005
Québec Control Area Procedure
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Title Number
P-ZRQ-001
Revised version
yes no
Effective date
Real and Reactive Power Tests at Generating Stations of 50-MW or Higher Capacity
November 11, 2005
Issued to
Generator owners in the Québec Control Area Drafted by Modified by Verified by Approved by
Caroline B-Côté Caroline B-Côté Albert Poiré Michel Armstrong
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. PURPOSE ............................................................................................................................................. 2 2. APPLICATION....................................................................................................................................... 2 3. COMPLIANCE AND REFERENCES.................................................................................................. 2 4. CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA.......................................................................................................... 2 5. TEST CONDITIONS.............................................................................................................................. 2
5.1. TEST SCHEDULE.................................................................................................................. 2 5.2. TEST DURATION .................................................................................................................. 3 5.3. OTHER TEST CONSTRAINTS................................................................................................ 3 5.4. TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE GENERATOR OWNER............................................................. 4
6 TEST PROCEDURE .............................................................................................................................. 4 6.1 SCHEDULING THE TESTS .................................................................................................... 4 6.2 CONDUCTING THE TESTS.................................................................................................... 5
6.2.1 Communications prior to the tests .............................................................................................. 5 6.2.2 Framework test procedure........................................................................................................... 5
6.2.2.1 Maximum real and reactive power of a generating station – STATION TEST................... 5 6.2.2.2 Maximum real and reactive power of each unit at a generating station – UNIT TEST....... 6
6.2.3 Retesting ..................................................................................................................................... 6 6.2.4 Communications immediately after the tests .............................................................................. 6
7 TEST FOLLOW-UP AND COMPLIANCE......................................................................................... 7 7.1 COMMUNICATING RESULTS ............................................................................................... 7 7.2 COMPLIANCE FOLLOW-UP ................................................................................................. 7
8 CONTACTS............................................................................................................................................. 8 PROCESS 1: SCHEDULING THE TEST.............................................................................................. 9 PROCESS 2: CONDUCTING THE TEST ........................................................................................... 10 APPENDIX A MAXIMUM REAL AND REACTIVE POWER – STATION TEST ......................... 11 APPENDIX B MAXIMUM REAL AND REACTIVE POWER – UNIT TEST ................................. 12
Procedure P-ZRQ-001
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1. PURPOSE The purpose of this Procedure is to provide guidance when testing the maximum real and reactive power of a generating station (station test) or a generating unit (unit test) in order to update real-time system operations databases and evaluate available resources in the Québec Control Area. The results of unit tests help validate official specifications for generating units provided by each generator owner and used for system planning and operations studies.
2. APPLICATION This Procedure applies to the owners of generating facilities with a capacity of 50 MW or more located in, or considered part of, the Québec Control Area.
3. COMPLIANCE AND REFERENCES This Procedure is in compliance with the following documents:
NERC Reliability Standards and requirements TOP-002-0 and VAR-001-0 NPCC Guides B-09 and B-18 NPCC Procedure C-07 Since loads on the Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie system are not heavy in summer, station testing is carried out once a year in anticipation of the winter peak.
4. CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA In accordance with the Transmission Provider Code of Conduct, Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie staff participating in this Procedure keeps data submitted by generator owners confidential.
5. TEST CONDITIONS
Two types of tests are used to verify maximum real and reactive power: 1) station tests, used to verify the maximum real and reactive power that a generating station can develop under peak conditions, and 2) unit tests, used to verify the characteristics of generating units.
5.1. TEST SCHEDULE Station tests must be conducted every year in January, February, November or December. The System Control Outage Scheduler must grant an exemption for a generating station’s maximum real and reactive power to be tested outside that period. If a request for an exemption is refused, the Outage Scheduler will so notify the generator owner representative, specifying the reasons for the refusal.
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Unit testing is conducted every five years or as soon as changes are made that affect the generating unit’s reactive power. Generator owners that must conduct unit tests are so notified in advance.
All generating stations to which this Procedure applies are tested according to a schedule drawn up by the generator owner every year. The schedule must be sent to the Telecontrol Outage Scheduler no later than two weeks before testing begins.
5.2. TEST DURATION Station tests must have the following minimum duration:
Hydroelectric generating stations and thermal plants (except gas-fired) – 2 hours Gas-fired plants – 1 hour 15 minutes
Unit tests must have the following minimum duration:
Hydroelectric generating stations and thermal plants (including gas-fired) – 1 hour Hydroelectric generating stations with reactive power absorption testing – 1 hour 15
minutes
5.3. OTHER TEST CONSTRAINTS Maximum real and reactive power is tested in compliance with any operating restrictions
which may apply to generating stations, generating units or related equipment. Operating constraints to prevent damage to generating units (e.g., on axial pulsing, vibrations and temperature) must not be exceeded.
Testing must not lead to contravening operating criteria (e.g., minimum operating reserves and maximum power flows). Testing may be limited or interrupted at the request of a System Operator should a system limit be reached and system reliability compromised.
The maximum real and reactive power of hydroelectric generating stations with interdependent water levels or flows potentially affecting the results must be tested at the same time.
It is preferable that generating stations or units capable of being islanded to a neighboring system be tested when the generating units are synchronized to the Québec grid. If that is impossible, the System Control Outage Scheduler or System Operator – Interconnections, depending on the horizon, analyzes the impact of testing on maintaining interchange schedules. Testing is conducted if power fluctuations are negligible or can be compensated, provided the System Operator – Interconnections and counterpart operator in the control area affected reach agreement on the quantity of inadvertent energy generated. Otherwise, testing is postponed to a later date.
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5.4. TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE GENERATOR OWNER Each generator owner is in charge of scheduling and conducting the tests, and making sure that the criteria in this Procedure are followed. Each generator owner must record the measurements for the generating unit parameters specified in Appendix A (for station tests) and B (for unit tests).
During the tests, the generator owner may test or measure other generating unit parameters for its own purposes provided this does not change test conditions and does not lead to power variations.
6 TEST PROCEDURE
6.1 SCHEDULING THE TESTS Reference: Process 1 (Scheduling the tests)
Testing must comply with the requirements of Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie, which sends a letter to each generator owner notifying it that testing must be done. The scheduling process is the same for both station and unit tests.
Generator owners must complete test scheduling no later than noon four working days before the test date. The generator owner must send its testing request as an outage request to the Telecontrol Outage Scheduler for its location and include its test procedure with that request.
In scheduling the test, the generator owner takes such facility-specific factors into account as the time of local ice cover formation.
The Telecontrol Outage Scheduler analyzes the requested test in terms of its impact on regional power system reliability.
If regional power system reliability is not compromised, the Telecontrol Outage Scheduler forwards the request to the System Control Outage Scheduler, who studies the request in terms of the main power system. Provided reliability of the main power system is not compromised, the request is approved.
Should either the Telecontrol Outage Scheduler or the System Control Outage Scheduler refuse the request, the generator owner representative is so informed and given the reasons for the refusal.
Under special circumstances where opportunities for testing arise on short notice, generator owners may send outage requests that do not allow the normal time for processing. Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie will do its best to accommodate such tests provided power system conditions so permit and system reliability is not compromised.
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6.2 CONDUCTING THE TESTS Reference: Process 2 (Conducting the tests)
6.2.1 Communications prior to the tests On the day of testing, one hour before testing is to begin, the designated operator of the generating station contacts the Telecontrol Dispatcher to confirm the test.
The Telecontrol Dispatcher analyzes the impact of testing on regional power system reliability. Provided testing does not compromise regional power system reliability, the Telecontrol Dispatcher asks the System Control Operator to authorize the test. If it does compromise reliability, the Telecontrol Dispatcher cancels the test and informs the generator's operator of the reason for so doing. The latter must then reschedule the test as set out in Section 6.1.
The System Operator analyzes the impact testing maximum real and reactive power will have on transmission system reliability. Provided the request does not compromise transmission system reliability and has no major effect on interchange schedules, the System Operator authorizes the Telecontrol Dispatcher to proceed and the latter then contacts the generating station(s) so that testing begins on schedule. If it does compromise reliability, the System Operator so notifies the Telecontrol Dispatcher who so informs the requesting party, who must then reschedule the test as set out in Section 6.1. The reasons for preventing the test are given to the generator's operator.
At the scheduled test time or the time specified by the Telecontrol Dispatcher, the latter asks the designated operator at the generating station to perform the test following standard procedures. The Telecontrol Dispatcher must notify the System Operator of the exact time testing starts. The designated operator of the generating station notes any unusual situation arising during the test and sends that information to the Telecontrol Dispatcher, who records it.
6.2.2 Framework test procedure
6.2.2.1 Maximum real and reactive power of a generating station – STATION TEST
For hydroelectric generating stations and thermal plants (except gas-fired), the station test lasts at least two hours and follows the steps below.
1) During hour 1, test the maximum real power of the generating station (all generating units simultaneously) accounting for the reactive power (Mvar) required by the state of the power system at the time of testing.
2) For the first 15 minutes of hour 2, maintain the state described in step 1) then check the reactive power (Mvar) developed by raising the generator output voltage setpoint until the limit for one of the following is reached: generator output voltage, transmission system voltage, stator current or rotor current.
3) For the next 45 minutes, test the maximum real power of the generating station (MW) accounting for the reactive power (Mvar) required by the state of the power system at the time of testing (return to state 1).
Station testing of a gas-fired plant lasts one hour fifteen minutes and only steps 1) and 2) above are performed. Once the test is done, gas-fired generating units must be shut down if they are not required by the transmission system.
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This kind of testing, given its impact on regional power systems, must be coordinated with support of Telecontrol staff at Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie.
6.2.2.2 Maximum real and reactive power of each unit at a generating station – UNIT TEST
The purpose of unit testing is to check the electrical characteristics of generating units. Two types of tests check the characteristic curve (P-Q curve) of a generating unit: 1) maximum production of reactive power (Mvar) and 2) maximum absorption of reactive power (Mvar), both at the generating unit’s maximum real power (MW).
1) Unit test of reactive power produced
For the hydroelectric generating stations and thermal (including gas-fired) plants to be tested, the generator's operator increases to its maximum the generating unit’s real power, then checks:
for a minimum duration of one hour (or until the temperature stabilizes), the reactive power (Mvar) developed by raising the generator output voltage setpoint until the stator current limit or rotor current limit is reached.
2) Unit test of reactive power absorbed
Once the unit test is complete for the production of reactive power, the generator's operator must keep the generating unit at its maximum real power (MW) and check:
for a 15-minute period, the reactive power (Mvar) developed by lowering the generator output voltage setpoint until the stator current limit or polar angle limiter has been reached.
6.2.3 Retesting Tests must be run again at a different time should the state of the power system at the time of testing not allow one of the following limits to be reached: generator output voltage, stator current or rotor current.
6.2.4 Communications immediately after the tests When testing ends, the designated operator of the generating station must notify the Telecontrol Dispatcher of any restriction, constraint or alarm that occurred during the test and was related to the equipment tested. The Telecontrol Dispatcher records this information and forwards it to the System Control Operator.
When testing ends, the Telecontrol Dispatcher, after having received instructions from the System Control Operator, asks the designated operator of the generating station to adjust generation to the scheduled value or another value depending on the state of the power system at that time.
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7 TEST FOLLOW-UP AND COMPLIANCE
7.1 COMMUNICATING RESULTS Generator owners must send the compiled test results to the Senior Agent – System Operation at the Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie System Control Centre as soon as possible and no later than 30 days after the tests were conducted.
7.2 COMPLIANCE FOLLOW-UP The generator owners in question must schedule and conduct maximum real and reactive power tests for all their generating stations before December 31 of the same year to comply with NPCC guidelines.
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8 CONTACTS
Telecontrol centre Telecontrol Outage Scheduler Dispatcher
Baie-Comeau (418) 296-8450
extension 3726, 3740 or 3775 [email protected]
(418) 294-4032
Rouyn-Noranda (819) 764-5124
extension 4326, 4320, 4313 or 4374 [email protected]
(819) 764-7916
Chicoutimi (418) 696-3854
(418) 696-3815 [email protected]
(418) 690-8367
Trois-Rivières (819) 694-2432
(819) 694-2422 (Bécancour and Gentilly) [email protected]
(819) 694-2761
Québec City (418) 624-5405
[email protected] (418) 634-3380 (418) 624-5613
Saint-Jérôme
(450) 431-3102 (450) 431-3103 (450) 431-3104
(450) 530-3869
Montréal
(514) 289-5451 (514) 289-5411 (514) 289-5175
(514) 879-4581
Senior Agent – System Operation (514) 289-2211, extension 4993
Fax 289-4556 [email protected]
For any questions related to this procedure, please write to: [email protected]
Putting as the subject line “INFO-TE (P-ZRQ-001)”
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PROCESS 1: SCHEDULING THE TEST
Plan max. power test for generating stations of ≥ 50-MW capacity
Each calendar year, during heavy load period*
Analyze outage request for impacts on regional power system
no
yes
Outage SchedulerOutage SchedulerPower producer
Under NPCC Guide B-09
Telecontrol System Control
Negative impact on regional system?Reschedule test Negative impact
on reliability or interchanges?
Analyze outage request for impacts on main power system &
P-ZRQ-001compliance
Approve test request
yes
no
Conduct testfollowing process 2
* January, February, November and December
Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie
At latest, noon 4 working days before the scheduled test date
At latest, noon 3 working days before the scheduled test date
Forward approved test request to power
producer
Receive approvedtest request
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PROCESS 2: CONDUCTING THE TEST
System OperatorTelecontrol Dispatcher
Power producerUnder NPCC Guide B-09
Request approval to proceed
(1 h in advance)
Day testing scheduled
Analyze impacts of requested test on
main power system
Analyze impacts of requested test on
regional power system
Negative impact on regional system?
Negative impact on reliability or interchanges?
Senior Agent – System Operation
Telecontrol Centre (TC) System Control Center (SCC)
no
yes
yes
no
Refuse testing and inform power producer
of reason
Replan test following process 1 Authorize test
Compile results using screenshots
Power producer compliant
Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie
Authorize test
Conduct test basedon established
parameters and type of generating station
Log constraints and send information to System Operator
Make copies for files, add comments on testing and forward
information
Record generating unit measurements and
parameters, and send data as specified in
P-ZRQ-001
Keep data on filefor consultation
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Appendix A MAXIMUM REAL AND REACTIVE POWER – STATION TEST
Test date (yyyy-mm-dd): [ - - ]
GENERATING STATION
Time Total Output MW MX
Water temp.1 °C (hydroelectric
generating station)
Air temp.2 °C
Upstream water level (m)
Down-stream water level (m)
COMMENTS
Start: End:
UNIT No. MW MX kV G.O.3 (%) COMMENTS Start: After 1 h of testing: After 1 h 15 min.: End: Start: After 1 h of testing: After 1 h 15 min.: End: Start: After 1 h of testing: After 1 h 15 min.: End: Start: After 1 h of testing: After 1 h 15 min.: End:
1 Water temperature: Temperature of cool water at the generator cooling system intake 2 Air temperature: Temperature of cool air at the cooling system outlet or generator rotor intake 3 G.O.: Gate opening
By: ________________________________________
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Appendix B MAXIMUM REAL AND REACTIVE POWER – UNIT TEST
Test date (yyyy-mm-dd): [ - - ]
GENERATING STATION
Time Total Output MW MX
Water temp.1 °C (hydroelectric
generating station)
Air temp.2 °C
Upstream water level (m)
Down-stream water level (m)
COMMENTS
Start: End:
UNIT No. MW MX kV G.O.3 (%) COMMENTS Start: End: Absorption test:4 Start: End: Absorption test:4 Start: End: Absorption test:4 Start: End: Absorption test:4 Start: End: Absorption test:4
1 Water temperature: Temperature of cool water at the generator cooling system intake 2 Air temperature: Temperature of cool air at the cooling system outlet or generator rotor intake 3 G.O.: Gate opening 4 For specified generating stations only By: ________________________________________