PacifiCorp Utility Update
JSIS Meeting
March, 2015
Infrastructure
• WISP PMU installations: 8 sites with multiple
devices with single communication channel
• Currently reporting to WECC: 7 sites
• Additional (non-WISP) PMUs: 6 sites
• PMU part of fault recorder hardware: Ametek
TR 2500 or Qualitrol IDM+
Data Management
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Incoming data C37.118 at 30 frames/sec
Two PDC in SLC; no substation PDC
PDC are running SEL-5073 software
One PDC streams to WECC in Vancouver, WA
the other to WECC Loveland, CO
• SEL-5078 Synchro-Wave software for data
archiving
Engineering Applications
• Model Validation - Song Wang
• Post-Event Analysis – Song Wang
• Jim Bridger RAS: additional input