SMART SUBSTATION

INTEGRATED MONITORING
Advanced forecasting and
asset management
The Flow of Energy: a European
Concern

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The Flow of Energy – also a Local
Concern
TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Consumers DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

New uses, need for

interactive response to
demand and embedded
generation

Increasing mix of less

predictable and more
intermittent sources

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The BLOCAUX substation in the heart of the french energetic transition

La Picardie, acteur majeur

de l’éolien en France

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Local P/C (MW) 2016

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The BLOCAUX substation : The first full digital substation in France

No plan B, No backup, No compromise, Digital or nothing…

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 Key drivers for TSO
• Operational performance
• Safety
• Availability
• Global CAPEX/OPEX
• Assets management

7
 Iteration

2000
1950 1975 First steps in
Electromécanical Electronic semi digital
substation

3 technologies for faster an more reliable solution, decreasing cost but similar
architecture and same limits.

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Digital = Disruption
New
expectations

New needs
New
Technologies

New
uses

The first prototype for the next

generation substation

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Introducing the Technologies

Global

Wide-Area
Automation

Inter-Substation
Communication

Infrastructure

HV Apparatus

Full Digital
System with
Advanced
Local
Functions
Local
 Digital integration from process to
wide area Wide area Controller

Primary Equipments
and sensors
Merging Units Protection Relays
Bay Controllers

Digital substation HMI

Monitoring

Optical
CTs/VTs Switchgear
Control Unit

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 Full redundant architecture

Control
Control Active
Standby
In Test
SYSTEM 1 SYSTEM 2
Protection
ProtectionIn
Protection
Active
Active
Test
RTE Smart Substation

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Sensors on Power Transformer

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 Power transformer control & monitoring
Buchholz relay (*)
- fault gas accumulation
- increase rate trend & alarms
IEC61850
Temperature sensors (*) Bushings monitoring (BMT300)
- oil temperature - Power dissipation (tgdelta)
- head-mount signal converter - Power factor
- fast process coupler - Capacitance
- Partial discharge

LV currents tore (*)

Digital Control cubicle (ACN)
- Cooling fans and pumps supervision

Bay Control Unit

Multigas DGA (TRANSFIX)
- photo-acoustic method
- 9 faults gases analysis
Cooling system control cubicle - moisture-in-oil (%RH & ppm)
control
Merging Units (HV-MV) Manual Automatic
protection

monitoring

LV Smart breaker (*)

control Tap Changer control cubicle
- Remote open/close control
protection
low raise - Integrated protection
- Integrated measurements
monitoring

Note * : monitoring functions realized by 3rd party devices, able to communicate with DS Agile system (dry contacts, 4-20mA, legacy protocols, IEC ...).
 Digital twin
The Smart Cooling Control
• Controlling each individual fan
• Optimize fan life time, cooling, and power consumption
• Optimize maintenance by using lower fan first
• Limit ageing of transformers by anticipating the cooling stage
• Dynamic Overload capacity calculation using :
– Rated current, Load factor K
– Transformer losses (HV/MV, HV/LV, MV/LV)
– Thermal transfer times
• Predictive values (Hot spot and top oil temperature)
• Advanced alarms (Cooling system alarm, Top oil alarm, hot-spot alarm)
• Oil level & Cooling group temperature discrepancy

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 CB control and World first
monitoring 61850 Disconnector
• Open close contact With Torque control
• Real time current
• Motor/pump start
information
• SF6 information

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Optical CT World first
Optical CT/VT
Disconnector

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Effet FARADAY

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IR Hot Spot Detection

2 TIR camera sets

Range 100 m
1000 thermal points

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 Condition Monitoring
CMU DS Agile Framework
(Condition Monitoring Unit)

Station bus

IEC GTW
BCU
BCU

Meteorological
sensors
MU SCU MU SCU

Temp. Bushing hotspot

SF6
DGA monitoring monitoring Auxiliary Unit
control Water
supply

switchgear Auxiliary unit Technical buildings Storm water

Drives metering environment discharge CT/VT/CVT CB/DS/ES
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 DLR Weather Based
70 km

Gathering of Wide area controller

measurements(P,Q, I), process real-time
status and health of algorithms for wide area
primary devices Control
1000 MW
15 substation
90 km
500 km OHL

Real-Time
acquisition Ampacity CIGRE TB204
Substation 1 Substation 2 computation inputs-output
data model
Ambient
temperature

Wind speed
DLR
Wind
Substation n Substation 3 direction

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…Wide area interconnections and controls

• Dynamic Line Rating

• Voltage Balancing
• ….

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 SIMULATION 40 jours sur zone de BLOCAUX

• MODELE ACTIF SEUL • MODELE TOUT TEMPS

Pareto de l'augmentation (actif + non actif)

200%

150%

100%

50%

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Digital Substation : 3 main phases

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 Smart substation learnings
Local integrated
The global concept Corporate vision
monitoring
• First full digital
substation in France
• Clustered approach
• Smart extends from
the SCADA to the • Enhanced operational
capabilities • Data lake
substation in a
• Scalable solutions • Ready for Edge to
distributed way
cloud
• First step toward an • Early warnings
• Ready for Machine
optimisation of IEDs • Trend analysis Learning and
• Powerful real time • Conditional Analytics
response to DER maintenance
integration challenges • Custom asset
• Total remote control management
• Concept for the • Extended life
secondary
equipment:
maintenance
Sensors free

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 Next generation substation : Toolbox for Industrial
Modular Solution
2800 digital substations in France in 2030
3 Billions Euros investment program

Sensors Common digital platform Advanced Functions

Poste Nouvelle Génération

https://www.rte-france.com/fr/document/controle-commande-des-postes-rte-modelisation-iec-61850
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Blocaux substation visits

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