Included is an overview of various transmission and distribution Webinars and Webcasts hosted by Siemens Energy in the past. The content within these online events is free to you, and you may watch these events at your convenience.

Presented by: Dr. Juergen Holbach
February, 2009

Any sudden load change in a power system, such as a fault, line switching, etc., causes the system's generators to adjust to the new condition. In that case, a power swing may occur.

This presentation reports on a zero-setting power-swing detection method that is independent of network parameters.

Power swing can be detected up to 10 Hz swing frequency, also during open pole condition and during asymmetrical operation. A blocking logic prevents unselective trips by the distance protection. For unstable power swings a flexible out of step tripping function will be proposed.

The coordination of power swing detection, distance protection and out of step protection provides a reliable system protection. The risk of unwanted trips and cascading effects in the power system will be reduced. This presentation reports on a power-swing detection method that is independent of network parameters and require no relay settings or setting calculations.

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Presented by: Robert de Mello
August 2008

Financial Transmission Rights (FTR), also known as Fixed Transmission Rights (FTR), Transmission Congestion Contracts (TCC) or Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR), accompany Locational Marginal Prices (LMP) in many centralized electricity markets. FTRs replace physical transmission rights and facilitate operation of the electric system to minimize production cost. FTRs also provide a mechanism to hedge congestion.

A sound understanding of FTRs is a prerequisite to successful participation in an electricity market. While the mechanism of an FTR auction is complex, and credit requirements, auction rounds, etc. can be daunting, the concept of the FTR is simple. Understanding the FTR will provide the foundation needed to settle key questions, namely:

This webcast explains the concept of the FTR using a simple system. By following the details of the energy settlement and intuitive concepts of ownership and use, the discussion clarifies the difference between physical and financial rights and concludes with alternate uses for FTRs.

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Presented by: Baldwin Lam
September, 2007

Electric power systems everywhere have traditionally been designed to withstand a certain level of disturbances. System planners and operators regularly conduct analytical tests by using well established practices and take appropriate measures to address vulnerabilities that may be uncovered. Such tests, meant to calibrate the performance of the power system under pre-defined conditions and against pre-defined standards, could be extremely time-consuming. Over the years, comprehensive and efficient methods and tools have been developed to assist system planners and operators in performing such tasks. Today's talk will focus on the applications of reliability assessment methods to transmission systems and offer some opportunities for applying probabilistic techniques to the planning and operation of modern day power grids.

You will learn:

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Presented by: Brent Duncan
July, 2007

Is your objective to monitor and maximize the utilization and performance of your utility's assets; avoid outages and/or restore outages faster; operate equipment more efficiently; and make more accurate decisions on infrastructure repair, upgrade and replacement? Then this webinar is for you! We'll show you how to establish substation infrastructure to collect, timestamp, and provide remote access for operational and non-operational equipment and environment information (node on the network); establish systems and applications to store, correlate, and analyze information; and integrate with the rest of the utility enterprise.

Join Product Marketing Manager Brent Duncan to learn how Siemens Smart Substations utilize IEC 61850 to achieve a unified system architecture to overcome the four primary barriers of data access, integration, storage and analysis.

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July and September 2006

Transmission and Distribution at Siemens Energy, Inc. hosted two Webinars covering the new standard, IEC 61850. Both of these Webinars aimed at giving the audience an introduction and an overview of this new standard, which is a new philosophy in substation design and provides cost-effective access to operational and non-operational data.

If you missed these Webinars when they were held, you can now watch them free!

• IEC 61850 Introduction - September 2006

• IEC 61850 Getting Started - July 2006

May 2006

Watch this free Webcast, Location Marginal Price. What is it? Where Might It be Leading Us? presented on May 9, 2006 in partnership with Energy Central.

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