46th Annual MINNESOTA POWER SYSTEMS CONFERENCE November 2-4, 2010 Earle Brown Heritage Center 6155 Earle Brown Drive Brooklyn Center, MN 55430 Sponsored by: College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota Cosponsored by: IEEE, Power and Energy Society, Twin Cities Chapter www.cce.umn.edu/mnpowersystems This conference provides electric utility engineers and consultants the opportunity to stay abreast of today’s power system technology. The conference emphasizes the unique challenges faced by electric utilities in the Midwest. The conference also serves as a forum for power engineers to meet with their colleagues from other utilities to discuss mutual concerns. Concurrent sessions include substations, utility industry futures, distribution automation/communications, power generation, delivery systems, project management, relaying, and two tutorials. Earn 15 Professional Development Hours for attending this program. 2010 MIPSYCON Planning Committee Denny Branca Mark Harvey Dave Peterson Cannon Technologies-- ABB, Inc. Dairyland Power Co-op Cooper Power Systems Anoka, Minnesota LaCrosse, Wisconsin Plymouth, Minnesota Pat Hayes Jeff Schoenecker Larry Brusseau ABB, Inc. Dakota Electric MAPPCOR Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Association Roseville, Minnesota Chuck Healy Farmington, Minnesota Kristi Fischer Electro Tech Minneapolis, Minnesota Philip Spaulding University of Minnesota Xcel Energy St. Paul, Minnesota David Hoops Maple Grove, Minnesota Catherine Flannery GE Energy University of Minnesota Huron, South Dakota Mike Steckelberg St. Paul, Minnesota Great River Energy Paul Imbertson Maple Grove, Minnesota Nathan Germolus University of Minnesota Sebesta Blomberg Minneapolis, Minnesota Gerry Steffens Fargo, North Dakota Rochester Public Utilities *Michael Jensen Tom Guttormson Rochester, Minnesota IEEE PES Twin Cities Connexus Energy Chapter Chair Dave VanHouse Ramsey, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minnesota Power Mark Gutzmann Duluth, Minnesota Xcel Energy Michael Marz Jon Wahlgren Minneapolis, Minnesota American Transmission Connexus Energy Company Al Haman Ramsey, Minnesota STAR Energy Services Waukesha, Wisconsin Greg Woodworth Alexandria, Minnesota Steve Mohs Ulteig Engineers, Inc. Sebesta Blomberg. Jim Hanson Minneapolis, Minnesota Consulting Engineers Group Roseville, Minnesota Farmington, Minnesota Dan Nordell * Planning Committee Chair Xcel Energy Minneapolis, Minnesota Program Schedule Tuesday, November 2, 2010 GENERAL SESSION 8:15 a.m.-12:00 noon Moderator: Michael Jensen Co-Moderators: Mark Gutzmann, Gerry Steffens, Larry Brusseau 7:15 Check-in 10:00 Break Continental Breakfast 10:30 Commercial Nuclear Power 101 8:15 Welcome Hernando Madronero, General Mike Jensen, Xcel Energy and Electric IEEE Power and Energy Society 11:15 Cyber Security Threats -- What Chair You Need to Know 8:30 Climate Change Policy: What’s Craig Sorum, FBI-Minneapolis Next? Division Michael Robertson, Michael 12:00 Lunch Robertson & Associates 9:15 Transmission for Wind Generation: What Will We Need to Build? Mike Steckelberg, Great River Energy CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:00 – 4:15 p.m. SUBSTATION UTILITY INDUSTRY FUTURES Moderator: Chuck Healy Moderator: Dave VanHouse Co-Moderators: Steve Mohs, Co-Moderators: Tom Guttormson, Denny Branca Gerry Steffens 1:00 Fundamental Principles of 1:00 SmartGridCityTM - Lessons Transformer Thermal Loading and Learned in the Field Protection Randy Huston, Xcel Energy Joe Perez, ERLPhase Power 1:45 BESS Impact on Integration of Technologies PV and Wind Onto the AC Grid 1:45 Surge Arrester Use to Improve Pat Hayes, ABB Inc. Grid Reliability 2:30 Break Steve Brewer, Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. 2:45 Congestion Severity Index at American Transmission Co. (ATC) 2:30 Break Thomas Dagenais, AMEC Earth 2:45 GIS- Benefits and Considerations & Environmental, Inc. Over Traditional AIS Solutions 3:30 Offshore Wind Development in Rick Graf, Siemens Energy, Inc. the Great Lakes 3:30 Reactor Switching and Reactor Michael Murphy, HDR Switching Devices Engineering, Inc. Thomas Speas, Southern States, 4:15 Adjourn LLC 4:15 Adjourn CONCURRENT SESSIONS continued on next page CONCURRENT SESSIONS continued 1:00 – 4:15 p.m. PROJECT MANAGEMENT Moderator: Jim Hanson Co-Moderators: Michael Jensen, Larry Brusseau 1:00 Xcel Energy’s Buffalo Ridge 2:45 University of Minnesota SCADA Incremental Generation Outlet Implementation - Can It Be Done Project (BRIGO) in a Non-traditional Utility Mike Dunham, Xcel Energy Setting? 1:45 Eau Claire 16kV Conversion Proj- Mike Grimstad, University of ect Coordination Minnesota Joe Gravelle and Brad Nelson, 3:30 500kV TSR Facility Study Xcel Energy Bill Barnhart, HDR and Doni 2:30 Break Murphy, Natural Resource Group 4:15 Adjourn EXHIBITOR RECEPTION 4:15-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 3, 2010 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION/ DELIVERY SYSTEMS I COMMUNICATIONS Moderator: Michael Marz Moderator: Tom Guttormson Co-Moderators: Dave Peterson, Co-Moderators: Dave Hoops, Dave VanHouse Jim Hanson 7:30 Continental Breakfast 7:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30 D-VAR STATCOM System Helps 8:30 NERC CIP Standards – Large Canadian Wind Farm Meet Past, Present, and Future the “Grid Code” Ray Sefchik, Midwest Reliability Manisha Ghorai, American Organization Superconductor Corporation 9:15 Smart Grid Communication 9:15 CU Project: An Introduction to Network Requirements High Voltage Direct Current Byron Flynn, General Electric Transmission 10:00 Break Jack Christofersen and Karl Mortensen, GRE-retired 10:30 The NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) 10:00 Break Process and Results 10:30 EPRI’s Research on HTLS Dan Nordell, Xcel Energy Advanced Conductors 11:15 New Wireless Alternatives for John Chan, Electric Power Distribution Automation (DA) Research Institute and Fixed Wireless AMI 11:15 PEVs and the Electric Grid -- Rick Schmidt, Power Systems Challenges and Opportunities Engineering Rana Mukerji, New York 12:00 Lunch Independent System Operator 12:00 Lunch RELAYING I Moderator: Mark Gutzmann Co-Moderators: Pat Hayes, Mark Harvey 7:30 Continental Breakfast 10:30 Fundamentals of Transformer 8:30 Smart Grid Substation: Case Inrush Study of the Substation of the Suhag Patel, GE Digital Energy - Future Multilin Andrew Beckel and John Grimm, 11:15 NERC Standards for Generator- Xcel Energy Transmission System 9:15 Performance Issues with Coordination Directional Comparison Blocking Charles Mozina, Beckwith Schemes Electric Bogdan Kasztenny, Schweitzer 12:00 Lunch Engineering Laboratories 10:00 Break Wednesday, November 3, 2010 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:00-4:15 p.m. POWER GENERATION DELIVERY SYSTEMS II Moderator: Jeff Schoenecker Moderator: Mike Steckelberg Co-Moderators: Steven Mohs, Co-Moderators: Philip Spaulding, Michael Marz Chuck Healy 1:00 Wind Energy and the Power 1:00 Distribution Generation System: Wind Power Myths Interconnection Panel Session Debunked Al Haman, STAR Energy Services, Matthew Schuerger, Energy Craig Turner, Dakota Electric, Systems Consulting Services, LCC Shawn Bagley, Xcel Energy and 1:45 University of Minnesota Research Mike Steckelberg, Great River Facility on Wind Turbines Energy Ned Mohan, University of 1:45 State Estimator Software Minnesota Application with Minimal 2:30 Break Real-Time Measurements and Use for Training Exercises. 2:45 Implementing PV Renewable Bob Endahl and Gabe Kainz, Energy Technology and A Case Otter Tail Power Company Study of Minnesota’s Largest PV Solar System 2:30 Break Mario Monesterio, Westwood 2:45 GIS – Substation and Renewables LLC Transmission Lifecycle 3:30 Lessons Learned from Management with Smallworld, Generation Event Reports ESRI, and ProjectWise Rogerio Scharlach, Schweitzer Craig Tobias, Xcel Energy Engineering Laboratories 3:30 Measurement, Calculation, and 4:15 Adjourn Prediction of T&D Losses: Technical / Economic Methods and Ramifications Richard Gonzalez, Excel Engineering, Inc. 4:15 Adjourn RELAYING II Moderator: Nathan Germolus Co-Moderators: Jon Wahlgren, Mark Gutzmann 1:00 Protecting Transmission Lines 2:30 Break Terminated Into Transformers 2:45 Broken Rotor Bar Detection . Roger Hedding, ABB, Inc. Past, Present, and Future 1:45 Highlights of the IEEE C37.234 Dan Swigost, Basin Electric Guide for Protective Relay Power Cooperative Application to Power System 3:30 Fault Locator Based Line Current Buses Differential Relay Synchronized Working Group K14 of the IEEE Measurements PES Power System Relaying Ilia Voloh, GE Digital Energy - Committee (Pratap Mysore, Xcel Multilin Energy) 4:15 Adjourn Thursday, November 4, 2010 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon TUTORIAL I TUTORIAL II Moderator: Al Haman Moderator: Tom Guttormson Co-Moderators: Jon Wahlgren, Co-Moderators: Mike Steckelberg, Nathan Germolus Larry Brusseau 7:30 Continental Breakfast 7:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30 Relaying 102 8:30 Distribution Planning for the Tom Ernst, Minnesota Power “Smart” Utility 10:00 Break David Farmer, UC Synergetic, Inc. 10:30 Relaying 102 (continued) 10:00 Break 12:00 Adjourn 10:30 Distribution Planning for the “Smart” Utility (continued) 12:00 Adjourn Topic Descriptions GENERAL SESSION Commercial Nuclear Power 101 Hernando Madronero, General Electric Climate Change Policy: What’s Nuclear energy plays a major role in Next? meeting the world’s energy needs. At the Michael Robertson, Michael Robertson end of 2005, there were 443 nuclear power & Associates plants operating in 32 countries. These An assessment of the current state, plants account for 17 percent of the regional, and federal prospects for world’s electricity.