Belgium – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – PDC WAMS

The National Control Center department of ELIA Transmission Belgium is looking for a solution to deploy a PDC-WAMS system (Phasor Data Concentrator – Wide Area Monitoring System) to collect, store, post process, analyze and visualize data coming from PMU’s installed in the ELIA grid. The solution shall support power system experts during investigation of the normal behavior of the Belgian grid and post incident (or almost incident) analysis. Power system experts must be able to use the tool that is being procured to perform analysis for phenomena (e.g. interactions, oscillations, ...) happening at a broad range of frequencies from (very) low frequencies up to just below 50Hz (sub synchronous range). Additionally, power systems experts would have to investigate even higher frequency ranges up some kHz (super-synchronous range) using data coming from the waveform recorders installed on the Elia grid. Therefore, the offered solution shall include features like oscillation detection, oscillation location, damping estimation and monitoring plus other analysis functionalities that would allow the experts to ease the detection of interaction between electrical assets and clients (e.g. wind parks, HVDC systems, synchronous generators, large loads, ...). Next to support power system experts, the solution must also support real time operators by offering detailed insights on the actual behavior of the grid. This must allow detection and the resolution of potential issues on the grid in an early stage. The solution being procured will have to offer communication (via standard protocol) with the existing ELIA SCADA/EMS system to exchange selected data, analysis results and alarms to the operators. The tender will have one lot, including: - PDC-WAMS tool selection: product and licenses o In the tender it will be requested that ELIA will be the owner of the licenses - Technical implementation within ELIA Transmission Belgium - Key User Training - Maintenance, Support and SLA...