• Stand-alone PMU function in hardware familiar, hardened and well-proven in the substation environment
• 2014 standard compliant - essential to ensure correct PMU response under dynamic system events when the PMU is most needed
• Real-time monitoring and control of the power system, especially when coupled with GE Vernova’s e-terra and Psymetrix PhasorPoint solutions
• Set and commissioned within the same MiCOM S1 Agile tool suite as per MiCOM P40 protection relays
• Transmits IEEE C37.118-2005 synchrophasor data at up to 60 frames per second
• Available with a full suite of back-up protection functions
• IEC 61850 or DNP3 Ethernet station bus communication
• Transmitted time-tagged signals are phase currents, voltages, their derivatives, frequency, rate of change of frequency plus binary signals

Key customer benefits:

• Real time monitoring and control of the power system
• Improved accuracy, latency and reporting rates versus SCADA data
• Flexible communications
• Graphical programmable scheme logic (PSL) eases scheme creation, and avoids the need for external logic controllers
• Field proven device with over 2500 PMU’s are in service up to 765 kV Voltage level

Key benefits:

• Powerful, free of charge, PC toolsuite
• Optimum management of the installed base, structured as per the substation topology
• Intuitive and versatile interface with file management facilities
• Logical structure based on substation, voltage level and bay
• Version control and cross-checking facilities for IED settings
• Real-time measurement visualization – MiCOM S1 Agile extends to all MiCOM Agile IEDs - including P847 PMU and busbar schemes

Engineering Tool Suite

S1 Agile is the truly universal PC tool for MiCOM Agile relay, assemble all tools in a palette for simple entry, with intuitive navigation via fewer mouse-clicks. No-longer are separate tools required for redundant Ethernet configuration, phasor measurement unit commissioning, busbar scheme operational dashboards, programmable curve profiles or automatic disturbance record extraction – applications are embedded. MiCOM S1 Agile supports all existing MiCOM, K-Series and Modulex, including a utility for automatic conversion of setting files from previous generations of numerical relays like K-series and MiCOM P20 to the latest P40 Agile models.

To move to the future, with no loss of functionality, no loss of device support, and full compatibility with your installed base and system architecture – request a copy of S1 Agile with the contact form link below.

GE Vernova’s latest MiCOM P847 offer an ideal path to refurbish an older installed base of MiCOM P847 PMU’s. Advantageously, users can benefit from the advancements made in protection, control, communications, hardware that have taken place in the intervening years. The new P40 retains form, fit and function compatibility but delivers the latest platform and software ready for today’s environment, and for future-proofed application for the decades ahead.

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Enabling Synchrophasor Based Wide Area Monitoring 

Reduce synchrophasor based wide area monitoring deployment and maintenance cost by integrating more PMUs per PDC, while being compliant to NERC-PRC-002-2 dynamic disturbance recording requirements: 

• Integration of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs)
• Seamless Interface to Super PDCs
• Integrate any C37.118 compliant device

The Multilin P30 Phasor Data Concentrator is a modular, substation rated, high performance device capable of collecting, processing, recording and archiving C37.118 compliant synchrophasor data. The Multilin P30 supports up to forty PMU or PDC inputs and up to eight user configurable channels for transmission of synchrophasor data to clients such as other PDCs, Super PDCs and/or EnerVista Synchrophasor Viewer.

PRC-002-2 Dynamic Disturbance Recording (DDR)

PRC-002 is a standard under development that will define the requirements for recording and reporting Sequence Of Events (SOE) data, Fault Recording (FR) data, and Dynamic Disturbance Recording (DDR). The purpose of the standard is to facilitate analysis of disturbances.

FR and SOE are features commonly available today in protection relays and SCADA equipment.

The third type of recording defined in the PRC-002-2 standard is DDR. Large interconnected systems can have inter-area responses to each other resulting in slow oscillating load swings. These disturbances are characterized by oscillating power swings that can have frequencies in the neighborhood of 0.1 to 4Hz, and duration in the range of a few seconds to minutes or hours.

A dynamic disturbance recorder is a device cable of recording incidents that portray power system behavior during dynamic events such as low frequency (0.1Hz - 4Hz) oscillations and abnormal frequency or voltage excursions.

The advanced high capacity disturbance and event recording features available in the Multilin P30 Substation Phasor Data Concentrator support the requirements of the PRC-002-2 standard and can significantly reduce the time needed for analysis and reporting of disturbance analysis and regulatory reports.

Multilin P30 Built-in Historian Capabilities 

A typical GE Vernova substation Dynamic Disturbance Recording (DDR) system comprises of several PMUs reporting synchrophasor data at various different rates from 1 to 120 frames per second to a Multilin P30 PDC. Each of GE Vernova's Multilin PMUs may include 1 to 14 sets of phasor values (Multilin N60). Below are some typical examples of different types of PMUs with various combinations of phasor, analog and digital parameters. Large volumes of data generated by a DDR system requires a fast and reliable archiving method to guarantee data integrity for future analysis.

The Multilin P30 PDC historian processor is a high capacity platform capable of recording up to 100.000 values per second.

Local Archiving 

Distributed synchrophasor data storage through local archiving is recommended under the following two scenarios:

• 1. Upstream communication channels don't support the bandwidth to report all data monitored by the PDC.
• 2. Communication channels supports transmission of all data monitored by the Multilin P30 PDC. Archiving at the Substation level is 
      introduced to increase system reliability and preserve monitored data in case of upstream channel communications failure.

EnerVista™ P30 Setup Software

The EnerVista P30 Setup software follows the user friendly structure characteristic of the industry leading EnerVista suite of software applications.  

The EnerVista P30 Setup application provides easy access to the Multilin P30 PDC feature set through an intuitive tree view of the Multilin P30 parameters for a clear and simple configuration process. A series of convenient trouble-shooting and diagnostic tools such as trending, Multilin P30 sequence of events recorder live view of actual values is available in EnerVista P30 Setup to optimize the testing, commissioning and monitoring activities.

The Multilin P30 Setup software can operate without a Multilin P30 device physically connected to the computer allowing users to work on configuration projects and save settings in a configuration file for future use.

EnerVista Synchrophasor Viewer is a powerful yet simple to use synchrophasor data management and visualization tool. EnerVista Synchrophasor Viewer can be customized to provide different views of the power system in a time aligned, live view or time aligned replay of historical events over user defined time span.

The visualization interface is based on an easy to use "worksheet" work environment. Users can create multiple worksheets on which multiple user configurable objects such as Phasor Displays, Trend Charts, Historian Statistics and PMU Status tables are displayed.

EnerVista Synchrophasor Viewer supports up to 16 Multilin P30 historians simultaneously. Each historian can be accessed by up to seven concurrent users.