The BIPS’s Operation

Operation's preparation activities

In 2015, aimingat improving the real time operation support resources, improvements were made to the structure and layout of the regulatory documents, which allowed to minimize the risk of failures and speed up consultations with over a thousand documents available for viewing on monitors in Control Rooms. Around 2,500 revisions regarding guidelines, procedures and operating instructions were carried out. The integration of new works to BIPS motivated the increase in regulatory documents, in particular the addition of 78 wind farms in the Northeastern Region and 26 in the Southern Region, which added 2,626 MW to the BIPS’s installed capacity.

ONS’s Operation Centers also issued 116 technical report as part of the access reports for the integration of new works to the BIPS.

Throughout the year, the Operation Centers handled more than 54,000 interventions in Operation Network, motivated by the operational measures associated with the ongoing water crisis, by conducting the tests for the full integration of the Madeira complex DC link and by thecapacityconfirmation tests of blackstart plants, being all these operations properly performed.

Two new computer systems were implemented at ONS’s Operation Centers, with positive effects in the interventions and energy analysisapproval processes:

• Operation Centers Intervention Management System (SICOP), which supports the consolidation of planning and preparation of the Daily Operation Program (PDO);
• ConsolidationSystem: of theEnergy Programming, Commercial Operation, Reservoirs Operation and Flood Control (SIPOCH).

 

Real Time Operation Qualification Activities

The success of real-time operation activities is highly dependent on the expertise and responsiveness of their technical teams. In 2015, ONS developed and deployed the Real Time Teams Structured Training Program, designed specifically for the continued development of Operation Centers’real-time teams.

Three courses were carried out within this program, totaling 512 hours of training for about 200 employees at five ONS’s Operation Centers: Brasilia, Florianópolis, Recife and Rio de Janeiro, without the need for the displacement of the teams, according to the methodology adopted.

For training and qualification ofONS’s and of the severalinvolvedAgents’teams, 26 exercises with simulated operation (drills), with regional range (RJ / ES Area, Eastern Area of the Northeastern Region, Manaus / MacapáArea, Campos Novos Area) and systemic (Southern / Eastern and Northern / Northeasternrestoration), were carried out with the participation of 343 employees.

 

Post-Operation Activities

Post-operation activities can be gathered into three large groups: analysis of the performed operation, settlement and statistical processing ofdata, and dissemination of technical results, as detailed in Table 4.

Table 4 – Activitiesinsertedin Post-Operation

In the activities of performed operationanalysis, 500 reports were issued during the year in compliance with the Grid Procedures, as detailed in Table 5.

Table 5– Reportsissuedin 2015

As for the settlementand statistical processing of data and events, the figures recorded in 2015increasedsharply regarding system expansion and new regulatory determinations.

As for the dissemination of results, new products are now available on ONS’s website, increasing the information released to the society.

It is also worth mentioning the reports issued followingANEEL’sspecific demands, such as Occurrences Releases in  Generation Installations (COIG) with 513 documents issued in the year, Transmission Installation technical requirements, with 1,240 documents issued for testing , temporary operation and permanent operation (REN No. 454/2011), Statements of Grid ProceduresCompliance for generating units entry into operation, with 564 documents issued for testing, temporaryand permanentoperation (REN No. 583/2013), and monitoring and preparation of blackstart tests reports in plants, with 79 documents issued in 2015 (REN No. 697/2015).

Another highlight of 2015 was the implementation, planned and coordinated by ONS’s Centers, with the involvement of the Operation Agents, of three new Normative Resolutions from ANEEL published this year: REN No. 666/2015, which updated guidelines for hiring, settlements and accounting of the amounts of the Transmission System’sUsage; REN 669/2015, which disciplined the programming and performance of transmission agents’minimum maintenance plan; and REN 697/2015, which updated guidelines for hiring, monitoring and dissemination of information on ancillary services. These new regulations led to reviewing theGrid procedures for ONS and Agents, reviewing of the Grid Procedures, reviewing of computer systems and holding workshops with the agents.

 

Operation and Maintenance Activities of Supervision and Control Systems

In 2015, new features wereimplemented in the development of the Energy Management Network’s (REGER)Phase 2, alreadyconsolidated as ONS’s Operation Centers’Supervision and Control System since the previous year.

Several applications developed to support real time Operation and also the Post-operationactivities, and other activities intended to REGER’s own performance follow-upand their connections with the agentswere added, such as:

• Screens of Electrical Areas, which allow displaying disturbances occurred illustrativelywith dynamic data, as they are collected, making the understanding by the agents and the entities involved in the determination of occurrenceseasier;
• Analysis ofViolations, which allows daily monitoring of all network equipment;
• Security AreaMonitoring, which allows graphically viewingthe security areadefinedfor the electric power system, considering the topology at the time of operation, reducing the risk of disconnections.

Throughout 2015, ONS reported in its Regional Operation Centers, the increase on the number of data and voice connections with the agents’systems, reaching a total of 367 connections, through which around 84,000 analog measurements points and 155,000 digital measurementspointsare currently being monitored, corresponding to approximately 2,400 BIPS installations supervised by ONS.