2009

1. On July 16th, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Steven Chu, has announced the selection of 28 new wind energy projects. V&R is one of the companies receiving funding.

V&R, in cooperation with NRECA CRN, Tri-State G&T and AECI, was awarded a DOE project "Improving Reliability of Transmission Grid to Facilitate Integration of Wind Energy in Tri-State G&T and AECI". The analyses under the awarded project will be performed using POM Suite of Applications.

Please click here to learn more. Or you can access Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) News here.

2. On July 26th through 29th, 2009 we participated in the 2009 PES General Meeting in Calgary, Canada.

V&R hosted a hospitality suite in Hyatt Regency Calgary.

We demonstrated POM Suite, version 5 and its applications for:
-  Use of PMU measurements to predict voltage collapse
-  Quick prediction of cascading outages
-  N-1-1, N-2 and above automatic AC contingency analysis and visualization
-  Fast fault screening for three-phase and unbalanced faults
-  Dynamic security region
-  Fast and accurate prediction of operating limits
-  Performing corrective actions to mitigate the exceeding operating limits

3. POM Suite version 5 is scheduled to be released in August of 2009.

This version will be approximately three times faster than the current version. The program is designed such that it automates NERC-compliance studies. It also addresses the upcoming NERC TPL standards to assess system performance following Planning Events and Extreme Events.

Please click here to download POM Suite Overview.

4. V&R made a major breakthrough in the area of voltage stability assessment. The solution that V&R offers becomes especially important when PV-curve analysis does not yield useful results. As a result, POM Suite identifies “operating” voltage stability margin, and effectively alleviates voltage instability using existing reactive and real sources in the system, as well as increases the transfer capability along the critical interfaces.

5. On-site training in POM Suite was held at American Transmission Co., Waukesha, WI on June 30 – July 1, 2009.

6. V&R was awarded a CEATI ( www.ceati.com ) project “Prediction of Power System Instability Based on PMU: Utilizing the ROSE (Region of Stability Existence) Approach.” ISO New England is the host utility for the project. The project started in May 2009.

Please click here to learn more about this and other POM-related projects.

7. Project review meeting for the project "Fast Fault Screening for Real-Time Transient Stability Assessment" was held at NYSERDA offices in Albany, NY on May 13, 2009.

8. On-site training in POM Suite was held at TNB, Malaysia on May 6 - 7, 2009.

9. On-site training in POM Suite was held at ConEd, New York, NY for ConEd, NYPA and LIPA engineers on April 27, 2009.

10. A webcast that completed Phase I of the “Cascading Outages” project was held on April 22, 2009. The project is being continued in 2009 and 2010.

If your network vulnerability to cascading outages is one of your concerns, please feel free to contact us at info@vrenergy.com and learn more about this project and its benefits for your organization.

11. The project "Common Information Model Importer for Physical and Operational Margins Suite" (“CIM for POM”) is underway. One of the most important project deliverables of 2008 was the development of XML POM Data Analyzer (POM-XA) which provides an independent testing of the quality and usability of the CIM XML file. Phase II of the project is to be completed in 2010.

12. On-site training in POM Suite was held at Entergy, New Orleans, LA on April 15 - 16, 2009.

13. POM User-Group Meeting and Training was held on March 30th through April 2nd, 2009 in Santa Monica, CA.

14. A project with PacifiCorp to compute the coefficients and constants for the real-time application of Bridger RAS started in March 2009.

15. On March 15th through 18th, 2009 we participated in the PSCE 2009 in Seattle, WA. We also presented a paper "Assessing Vulnerability to Cascading Outages" during this venue.

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2008

1. V&R Energy, jointly with EPRI, was awarded a NYSERDA project "Fast Fault Screening for Real-Time Transient Stability Assessment".

2. ConEd and V&R Energy continue to work on two projects “Visualizing Cascading Outages and Their Impact” and “Prevention of Cascading Outages for ConEd’s System”.

3. We have applied our R&D ideas in an EPRI project on fast prediction of cascading outages. The approach to accessing cascading outage delivered under this project was very impressive, and, as a result, we have started a project with AEP, ConEd, Entergy, Exelon, FirstEnergy, ISO NE, NYPA and Tri-State G&T in the beginning of 2008.

4. Entergy and V&R continue to test and implement V&R’s unique Fast Fault Screening (FFS) approach to transient (angular) stability analysis.

5. V&R demonstrated POM Suite visualization and on-line/real-time capabilities during EPRI Situational Awareness Taskforce meeting that was held at Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, GA on December 9, 2008.

6. V&R presented its solution to N-1-1, N-2 contingency analyses and predicting cascading outages in order to address the upcoming NERC TPL standards during the NRECA CRN T&SA Membership Advisory Group meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ on December 11, 2008.

7. Project review meeting for the two projects "CIM Compatibility for POM" and "Cascading Outages" was held at NYPA offices in White Plains, NY on October 2, 2008.

8. On July 20th through 24th, 2008 we participated in the 2008 PES General Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

V&R hosted a hospitality suite where we demonstrated POM Suite and its applications for:
-  Transmission System Optimization
-  Predicting Cascading Outages
-  Fast Fault Screening
-  Evaluation of Voltage Stabilizing Technologies
-  Budgeting for the Future

We presented a paper "Evaluate Real-Time System Reliability Using Boundary-Based Concept for EKPC System". Please click here to download.

9. Project review meeting for "Cascading Outages" project was held at Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, GA on May 27 - 28, 2008.

10. On-site training in POM Suite was held at ConEd for ConEd, NYPA and LIPA engineers on May 22 - 23, 2008.

11. POM User-Group Meeting and Training was held on March 24th through 27th, 2008 in Santa Monica, CA.

2007

1. We presented the methodology to quickly predict cascading outages and identify possible cascading modes at EPRI Power Delivery & Markets Advisory Meeting, September 24 - 28, 2007, Chantilly, VA.

2. V&R was invited as guest speaker at 2007 CRN Member Summit that was held on July 31 - August 2, 2007 in Denver, Co. Please click here to view the presentation.

3. The kick-off meeting for the project "Common Information Model Importer for Physical and Operational Margins (POM) Suite" was held at KeySpan, Hicksville, NY on July 13, 2007.

Please click for meeting agenda, project overview, and a brief CIM overview.

4. On June 24th through 28th, 2007 we have participated in the 2007 PES General Meeting in Tampa, FL.

V&R hosted a hospitality suite during the venue.

We have also presented the paper "Fast Fault Screening Approach to Assessing Transient Stability in Entergy's Power System" at the "Security Assessment and Load Shedding" Session. Please click here to view the presentation.

5. An on-site training in POM Suite (POM/OPM/BOR/TS/PS) was held at Idaho Power Co., Boise, ID on June 19 - 20, 2007.

6. On-site training in POM Suite was held at ConEd for ConEd, NYPA and LIPA engineers on June 7 - 8, 2007.

7. On-site training in POM/OPM/BOR was held at EKPC on May 15 – 16, 2007. Please click to view the Agenda.

8. POM Suite version 4 has been released in April 2007.

9. POM User-Group Meeting and training was held on March 26th through 29th, 2007 in Santa Monica, CA. Please click to view the Agenda.

10. A project "Common Information Model Importer for Physical Operational Margin Program" is scheduled to start in 2007. This is our joint project with Entergy, American Transmission Co., ConEdison, KeySpan/LIPA, NYPA, and EPRI.

11. On-site training in POM/OPM/POM-TS with FFS was held at Entergy on February 6 – 7, 2007.

12. A paper "A New Approach to Constructing Seasonal Nomograms in Planning and Operations Environments at Idaho Power Co." has been accepted to Power Tech 2007, July 1 - 5, 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland. Please click here to download.

13. A paper "Fast Fault Screening Approach to Assessing Transient Stability in Entergy's Power System" has been accepted and will be published in the Proceedings and scheduled for presentation at the 2007 PES General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007, Tampa, Florida. Please click here to download.

2006

1. On October 29th through November 1st, 2006 we participated in IEEE PES Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE 2006) in Atlanta, GA; booth #209.

2. A paper “Identifying optimal remedial actions for mitigating violations and increasing available transfer capability in planning and operations environments”, C2-213 was presented at 2006 CIGRE Session, 27 August-01 September 2006, Paris, France. Presenter - Edina Bajrektarevic of American Transmission Co. (ATC). Please click here to download.

3. V&R has participated in the International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), July 9 - 13, 2006, Korea. Please click for photo 1 and photo 2.

4. A paper “Reliability Management of Korea Power System Operation by POM/OPM/BOR” was presented at ICEE2006, PyongChang, Korea. Please click here to download.

5. V&R won an EPRI bid to "Compute Cascading Vulnerability" on June 21, 2006.

6. POM-OPM Real-Time Software installation and POM-OPM training was held at TNB, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 12 – 16, 2006. Attendees included the executives, operators and planners.

7. V&R was selected by IEEE as Participant in the Showcase of Innovation during 2006 General Meeting in Montreal, June 18 – 22, 2006. V&R also hosted a Hospitality Suite during the meeting and demonstrated unique capabilities of Physical and Operational Margins Suite of Applications on June 19, 20 and 21, 2006.

8. Entergy and V&R continue to test V&R’s unique Fast Fault Screening (FFS) approach to transient (angular) stability analysis utilizing Entergy data.

9. V&R won two NRECA CRN bids: “Evaluate Real-Time System Reliability Software”, host utility - East Kentucky Power Cooperative and “Evaluate Voltage Stabilizing Technologies”, host utilities - Tri-State G&T and Basin Electric.

For more information on the POM or other software products developed by V&R, please contact us at info@vrenergy.com.

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