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Waterloo North Hydro Constructs New Transformer Station SynergyGE HARRIS Energy Control Systems WaterlooWaterloo NorthNorth HydroHydro constructsconstructs newnew transformertransformer stationstation An Interview with Waterloo North Hydro pg 1 SPRING 2001 Global Perspectives pg 5 Features pg 10 Product Showcase pg 14 Did You Know? pg 19 Photo courtesy of Kitchener-Waterloo Tourism An Interview with An Approach to Justifying and Stephen Costello Engineering Supervisor, Stations and Planning Waterloo North Hydro In anticipation of a steady load The main goals of this project are to Waterloo, ON., Canada growth, Waterloo North Hydro is con- implement a substation control system structing a new 100 MW 230/27.6 kV that will: transformer station in the City of • Provide the same or better reliabil- Waterloo. We are eager to have the ity as traditional protection and substation on line by this summer, control systems in time for our seasonal peak load. • Integrate with Waterloo North Hydro’s existing Quindar SCADA When it came to selecting and master station designing a control system for our • Integrate with various IEDs (relays, new transformer station, our prime meters, monitors, controllers) to pro- motivation was to save money and vide traditional protection and control, increase functionality. Following a as well as increased functionality year long investigation and evaluation of • Have a flexible design that is the SCADA/system integration market- transportable to our future projects place and trends, it became clear that an (by reusing hardware and software investment in substation automation architecture) would pay off quickly in terms of • Most importantly, achieve the same or installation, operational and maintenance increased functionality as compared to cost savings. traditional systems at a reduced cost. Waterloo North Hydro Achieving System Integration Early on in the planning stages for the project, we determined that we could avoid our previous time-consuming and cost-intensive specification, development and tendering process by directly awarding the control system contract to a preferred vendor. From our pre- liminary evaluation of available products and technology we compiled a short list of potential suppliers. All indicators pointed to GE Harris Energy Control Systems as the best solution. The idea of one company providing a complete substation automation system was very appealing. Although equip- ment vendors profess complete compatibility and integration with other vendors’ products, in past experiences Like many other regions these days, negotiation of technical and commercial we have spent much time and money Ontario’s power industry is undergoing requirements. After appraising a few ourselves troubleshooting communica- deregulation. In this new marketplace scenarios, we were able to come to an tion and integration issues that the any wholesale customer connecting to agreement with GE Harris. vendors would or could not resolve. With the bulk electrical system (115, 230 and The scope of work is defined as General Electric we were attracted by 500 kV) must provide certain station follows: the company’s broad offering of products status and analog points to Ontario’s • Design, manufacture, test and deliver and commitment to provide a turnkey Independent Market Operator (IMO). control panels (in collaboration with solution and service. The IMO is the watchdog for the overall VIRELEC LTD.) Although we had never worked operation of the province’s bulk power • Design, manufacture, test and with GE Harris before, we are a long- grid and will eventually run the deliver remote monitoring system time customer of General Electric. wholesale electricity "spot market". As it and human-machine interface, inte- GE Industrial Systems has been a valued was, at the time we were investigating grated with upstream master stations supplier to Waterloo North Hydro for control system solutions, GE Harris was and downstream IEDs (in collabora- several past substation projects. And exclusively specified by the IMO for tion with GE Industrial Systems, the Power Management division of remote monitoring systems. Stellar Dynamics, a division of GE Industrial Systems was a strong The combination of all these factors GE Harris and VIRELEC LTD.) candidate for providing intelligent influenced our decision to proceed with • Provide training courses to engi- protection relays. We have also been direct negotiations with GE Harris. We neering and station maintenance very satisfied with the service and went ahead and requested a substation personnel support of VIRELEC LTD., who is a automation proposal from GE Harris to • Provide on-site commissioning and value added reseller of GE Harris. be awarded based on the successful start-up assistance. pg 3 Features of our new GE Harris • Virtual connection to both UR and with added functionality for increased Substation Control System will include: SEL relays from anywhere on the system control. These benefits, together • GE Harris PC-based PowerLink SCADA WAN. with GE Harris’ commitment to meeting graphical user interface for local Three months into the system develop- our tight deadline have all validated our station control ment, we are confident with our approach unique approach to this project. • GE Harris D200 data concentrator and final decision. By circumventing the for all the substation IEDs tendering process we saved approxi- Stephen Costello, the author, is • GE Power Management UR relays mately three months on our project Engineering Supervisor, Stations and connected to the substation Ethernet timeline. The calculated cost savings Planning, Waterloo North Hydro. LAN alone of doing away with traditional • DNP Ethernet substation LAN for devices such as mimic panels, manual fast data access switches, transducers, chart recorders, • Remote access from the control and other hardwired components justify centre over the company SCADA the substation automation schemes. The WAN/LAN system integration will also provide us Global Perspectives From the desk of Shahrokh Zangeneh Voice of the Customer Six Sigma Quality At GE Harris, we pride ourselves in serving our customers The feedback from our customers has been that Six Sigma with integrity, speed and purpose. One of the areas of focus is a great program and that it truly enhances the way we work and concentration for the GE Harris leadership team over the and serve our customers. This is highly encouraging and coming weeks and months of 2001 is the voice of the customer. Six Sigma will again be a major focus area at GE Harris this We have a number of ongoing and rigorous company wide year with special focus on deriving and applying measurable initiatives across both our businesses of Systems and Substation benefits for our customers to address their major CTQs Automation on Digitization and e-business, Six Sigma quality, more effectively. and Technology Investment. These initiatives are designed to align our businesses in a such a way to better position our- Technology Investment selves in addressing our customer’s critical to quality (CTQ) The application of advanced technology is an ongoing issues. We are in full swing with these initiatives and will objective at GE Harris, and this year is no exception. In fact, we be in touch with our customers in due course have a great deal of investment in new developments through Synergy or personal contact to provide and applications, details on which will be full updates throughout the year. released periodically through Synergy. We The updates are intended not only to plan a number of road shows and seminars provide details of internal changes but this year in major cities across the USA and also to better explain and demonstrate Canada as well as some global locations to how these initiatives affect and benefit present the latest offerings and technology you, our customers. advancements from GE Harris. The road shows and seminars will be held in a tutorial Digitization and e-business format and will allow for open forum Digitization, simply put, is to change the questions and answers from our customers. We way we work and to use technology to cut down on will be sending out invitations and agendas well in repetitive and non-value added tasks in order to apply advance of holding the events to ensure maximum turnout. resources and energy to areas where our customers feel the full Our efforts, as always, are focussed on providing maximum value of the work we perform. With e-business, we will open value through our products, services and major initiatives up a whole new method of on line ordering and follow-up designed to make us more effective and efficient at serving our capabilities to our customers aimed at reducing cycle times customer base. We highly value the opinion and voice of our and providing up to the minute accurate information on order customers, and thank you all for continuing to provide us with status. The on line ordering capabilities will be discussed with feedback and comments on our products, services and our customers through Synergy and one on one contact over initiatives. On our part, we will continue to solicit feedback the course of the coming weeks. and will do our best to keep you informed on any actions We believe Digitization and e-business will benefit our taken to address issues raised by our customer community. customers immensely. Shahrokh Zangeneh Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Growth Initiatives GE Harris pg 5 What’s Happening @GE HARRIS Innovative Solutions For E Harris once again participated Substation Automation & Monitoring Distributed Power in the DistribuTECH® 2001 • Integrated Substation Monitoring, • Engine-based Power Plants from GConference and Exhibition, one of Diagnostics, and Control of Sub- 0.3 to 10 MW the industry’s leading international con- station Primary Equipment • Fueled by Natural Gas, Bio Gas, ferences on information technology, • Multi-functional IEDs and Relays Special Gases, Diesel Fuel, and distribution automation, and competitive • Remote Monitoring Devices and Heavy Fuel business strategies. The conference was held Sensors for Performance Conditions • Environmentally Friendly February 2nd - 8th 2001 in San Diego, CA.
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