1. Jon Jensen Associate Staff Engineer
Building a Project
Jon Jensen
Associate Staff Engineer
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Project Files
What is a Project File
Naming Convention
(Area Number)_(Company Name Acronym)_(Project Description)
40_BPA_PDCI Upgrade.prjx (PSS/E projects are *.prj)
Project Types
Base Case Corrections (possible extra for different MVA/kV brackets)
Base Case Correction
Generation < 20 MVA
Generation ≥ 20 MVA
Transmission/Load < 100 kV
Transmission/Load ≥ 100 kV
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Project Files (Cont.)
Status Types
Base Case Corrections
Powerflow
Dynamics (Not available at this time)
WECC (WECC Staff use only)
Generation and Transmission/Load
Planned
Proposed
Exploratory
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4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Project File Creation
Demonstrate Project file creation with cases described yesterday
.epc file upload in PSLF then export again
Master Base Case (14HS4 Operating Case)
Sample Project Case
Describe Unassociated Criteria Flag
Used to block reporting of changes to things not associated with compare by criteria
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5. Project File Submission
Login to the BCCS
Import Project
Submission and Validation process
Upload
Preliminary
Submit
Pending approval
Area Coordinator
Pending acceptance
WECC Staff
Accepted
“Committed”
Reference Documents
WECC BCCS Data Submitters Guide
Guidelines-notes-draft ver 0.4
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6. Project File 16lw1 Test Case
What we are asking you to do:
Create the project for this test case based off of Area, Owner(s) or Zone(s).
transition from 14hs4 case to 16lw1
How will projects be submitted?
Select appropriate area/owner(s)/zone(s) for data submission
SRP Example Zone 999 – Missing data
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