Slides for the PSERC Webinar on January 24, 2017

TITLE: PSERC High Impact (HI) Project: Life-cycle management of mission-critical systems through certification, commissioning, in-service maintenance, remote testing, and risk assessment

The life-cycle management of mission critical systems requires the testing and evaluation tools for acceptance, commissioning, periodic maintenance and troubleshooting. In many instances, because such tools and methodologies are not readily available, the industry practice is to use custom approaches, which may be costly. Typical examples are the synchrophasor based Wide Area Protection, Monitoring and Control (WAMPAC) System and Special Protection System (SPS) where no standard tools for certification, commissioning, in-service maintenance and risk assessment are available. This PSERC HI project effort will deliver such tools and make some of them readily available for the industry to use at the host universities. The project team consisting of researchers from Texas A& M University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Washington State University was involved in several related PSERC projects leading to the HI project as the next step. The presentation will address the problem background, goals and objectives of the project, as well as the results obtained so far. There will also be a discussion of the future implementation and testing plans for the developed tools.