A new project titled “Life-Cycle Management of Mission-Critical Systems through Certification, Commissioning, In-Service Maintenance, Remote Testing, and Risk Assessment” was recently approved for $1.2 million. The project will last 3 years starting on July 1, 2015.
The life-cycle management of mission critical systems is particularly complex since it requires tools and methodologies that are not readily available, so some custom approaches are typically taken, which may be costly. Typical examples are the deployment of synchrophasor based Wide Area Protection, Monitoring and Control (WAMPAC) and Special Protection System (SPS) where no standard tools for certification, commissioning, in-service maintenance and risk assessment are available. This project will deliver such tools and make some of them readily available for the industry to use at the host universities. This project team was involved in several related PSerc projects resulting the HI project as the next step.
The Principal Investigator (PI) is Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, Eugene E. Webb Professor. The Co-PIs are Sakis Meliopoulos (GeorgiaTech), Thomas Overbye (Univ. Illinois-Urbana Champaign), David Bakken (Washington State Univ.), and Anurag Srivastava (Washington State Univ.). The Industry Partners are Patrick Panciatici (RTE), Eugene Litvinov (ISONE), Mark Westendorf (MISO), Bruce Fardanesh (NYPA), Michael Swider (NYISO), Mark Laufenberg (PowerWorld), Juan Castaneda (SCE), Alberto Del Rosso (EPRI), Tong Jianzhong (PJM), and Jay Giri (Alstom).