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WPRC technical paper: “Challenges Encountered in the Operation Analysis and Settings of a Parallel Three-Terminal Line Application”

Electrocon International exhibited CAPE software for protection engineering at the Western Protective Relay Conference in Spokane, Washington October 20-22.  On the conference program, Jeffrey Pond, National Grid, presented the paper, “Challenges Encountered in the Operation Analysis and Settings of a Parallel Three-Terminal Line Application,” which describes an event experienced by National Grid: an over trip of a Directional Comparison Blocking (DCB) Scheme on a 115 kV double-circuit mutually coupled line for a transformer lightning arrestor failure on a parallel, three-terminal line with an identical DCB scheme. The post-fault investigation identified the root cause of the event and showed several key requirements for effective protection tools. Request a copy of the technical paper or read more info.

Comisión Nacional de Energía selects KEMA to analyze entire grid system using CAPE software

KEMA and Comisión Nacional de Energia (CNE) of the Dominican Republic have announced the initiation of a protection and coordination study for the Dominican Republic’s national electrical grid system. This study funded by the World Bank loan IBRD No. 7217-DO is aimed at providing technical assistance to the energy sector. Working in close cooperation with protection engineers of the Organismo Coordinador and Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica Dominicana, the study will assess current protection settings and perform an integrated coordination study using the CAPE software suite developed by Electrocon International Inc. More info

How to Meet Today's Challenges to Protection Engineering: PACWorld Cover Story

Paul McGuire and Ashok Gopalakrishnan of Electrocon and Tony Giuliante of ATG Consulting collaborated on this thought-provoking cover story in the Spring, 2008 issue of PACWorld Magazine. They discuss key issues and suggest some solutions. See what you think and let us know your thoughts.

Read the story (PDF- 1.7 MB)

Electrocon shows a practical approach to Wide-Area Coordination Review

Electrocon International has pioneered an innovative methodology to automate the wide area coordination review of a utility’s protective devices. Automation has made this clearly desirable objective both practical and affordable, where previously it was an ideal that even fully-staffed protection groups could not achieve. The transmission utility does not need to have Electrocon’s CAPE software and relay database in place, since the technique can be applied to data converted from almost any existing electronic network format, including those of Siemens’ PSS/E and ASPEN’s OneLiner. Full release

Wide Area Coordination Review Steps - PDF data sheet

Newest CAPE customers

New CAPE customers include KEMA, ABB (Brazil), Transportadora de Electricidad, Advanced Power Solutions, RWE Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice, General Electricity Company of Libya, University of Rijeka, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.

Technical paper: Protection coordination in the transmission system and boundaries – a Wide-Area Coordination study

A technical paper presented at WPRC 2007 describes the methodology to automatically check a wide area of protection coordination, including the boundaries between transmission and generation and transmission and distribution. 

This paper describes Red Eléctrica de España (Madrid)'s 2006 project to check protection coordination in one of its most critical transmission network areas. More

CAPE customers: get the latest CAPE software online

New versions of CAPE become available to users under maintenance approximately monthly. If you are running the March 7, 2005 "build" of CAPE, you can obtain the latest enhancements via the Web by clicking your Update_Cape button. If you want further details, you can download the latest release notes from the Electrocon FTP site.  (Access is limited to customers only. Contact Electrocon to request a password.)

CAPE runs on MS Vista

Versions of CAPE since July 2007 run on Windows Vista. Details here explain the specific syntax needed.