System News & Studies
Additional relevant information may be found on the
BPA Transmission System Planning page.
- RAS GEN DROP ARMING
For the last three years, High Gen Drop RAS has been armed 47.1% of the time (range 9.8%-99.9% per month).
Low Gen Drop RAS has been armed 35.4% of the time (range of 1.9% to 99.9% per month).
Please direct any questions to
John Kerr at jskerr@bpa.gov.
(25Aug09)
- PERFORMANCE VALIDATION & NOISE INJECTION STAGED TEST PLAN 2009 (Revised)
Test Plan 2009 Rev1
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(23Jun09)
- PERFORMANCE VALIDATION & NOISE INJECTION STAGED TEST PLAN 2009
Test Plan 2009
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(28Apr09)
- STAGED SYSTEM TESTS FOR VALIDATION OF WECC SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MODELING: Summary Report for August 19, 2008
This is a summary report of the probing tests of Aug 19, 2008. More detailed analysis will be presented in future reports.
INTERIM Test Report 2008
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(28Jan09)
- PERFORMANCE VALIDATION & NOISE INJECTION STAGED TEST PLAN 2008
Under this plan the Chief Joseph Braking Resistor will be test inserted, the PDCI
Probing 3-cycle signals at 0.25 Hz and 0.7 Hz tests and mid-level probing tests
will be applied, as well as additional Noise Injection Tests to the Pacific HVDC
Intertie on August 19-20, 2008.
Test Plan 2008
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(31Jul08)
- N-1 RAS SCHEMES WITH GEN DROP ARMING > 1000MW
Please direct any questions to
John Kerr at jskerr@bpa.gov.
(31Oct2006)
- PERFORMANCE VALIDATION & NOISE INJECTION STAGED TEST PLAN 2006
Under this plan the Chief Joseph Braking Resistor will be test inserted, the PDCI Probing
3-cycle signals at 0.25 Hz, 0.42 Hz and 0.7 Hz tests will be applied, as well as additional
Noise Injection Tests to the Pacific HVDC Intertie on June 13, 2006 and August 22, 2006.
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(05Jun2006)
- PDCI PERFORMANCE VALIDATION & NOISE INJECTION TEST PLAN 2005
Under this plan the Chief Joseph Braking Resistor will be test inserted, the PDCI
Probing 3-cycle signals at 0.25 Hz and 0.7 Hz tests will be applied, as well as additional
Noise Injection Tests to the Pacific HVDC Intertie during September 13-14, 2005.
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(12Sep2005)
- PDCI PROBE TESTING PLAN 2005
Under this plan probing signal tests will be applied regularly to the Pacific HVDC Intertie
during the late spring - early fall 2005 operating period.
Please direct any questions to
Jim Burns at jwburns@bpa.gov.
(11May2005)
- WEST-OF-MCNARY and WEST-OF-SLATT ANALYSIS
Tabulated maximum and mean transfers across the West Of McNary (WOM) and West Of Slatt (WOS) flowgates,
for the period 1994-2003. The values provided were calculated from hourly SCADA recordings.
A cumulative frequency distribution of the WOM transfers for July 2001-February 2003 is also provided.
Narrative and base data
West-of-McNary frequency distribution plots
Please direct any questions to
Karl Schneider at kwschneider@bpa.gov.
(25Feb2004)