CEA Approves Uniform Protection Protocol for Users of Indian Grid
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has approved a Uniform Protection Protocol for Indian Grid users. It addresses the protection requirements for thermal and hydro generating units, renewable energy generations (REGs), battery energy storage systems (BESS), substations, transmission lines, and HVDC terminals.
November 18, 2024. By Mrinmoy Dey
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Ghansyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA and was attended by high-level dignitaries of Power sector – Hemant Jain, Member (GO&D), CEA, S.R. Narasimhan, Chairman and Managing Director of Grid-India, Chairpersons of Regional Power Committees/Technical Coordination Committees of RPCs, Member Secretaries of RPCs and NPC, and Representatives from CTU and CEA.
As per IEGC, 2023, a uniform protection protocol will be there for the users of the grid for proper coordination of the protection system in order to protect the equipment/system from abnormal operating conditions, isolate the faulty equipment and avoid unintended operation of the protection system.
“The Uniform Protection Protocol aims to ensure grid stability, reliability, and security and also greatly supports the Government of India’s vision for the integration of 450 GW renewable energy into the national grid by 2030 and an ambitious target of 2100 GW of renewable energy by 2047,” noted the Ministry of Power in a statement.
As per the statement, the Uniform Protection Protocol will be applicable to all regional entities, state/central/private generating companies/generating stations, SLDCs, RLDCs, CTU, STUs, transmission licensees and RPCs, connected at 220 kV (132 kV for NER) and above.
The Protocol addresses the protection requirements for thermal and hydro generating units, renewable energy generations (REGs), battery energy storage systems (BESS), substations, transmission lines, and HVDC terminals.
“The purpose is to ensure that adequate disturbance data is available to facilitate grid event analysis. The analysis of power system disturbances is an important function that monitors the performance of protection system, which can provide information related to correct behaviour of the system, adoption of safe operating limits, isolation of incipient faults,” noted the statement.
Further, the protocol also has provisions for protection audits, performance monitoring and compliance monitoring. There will be protection audits, as per the Central Electricity Authority (Grid Standards) Regulations, 2010, IEGC Grid Code Regulations 2023 and approved SOP for Protection System Audit. It also calls for monthly submission of protection performance indices by users/entities to RPCs and RLDCs. Non-compliance will be reported to RPCs, and unresolved violations will be escalated to the Commission for suitable directions.
The meeting also addressed other key issues in the Indian Power Sector, including five-minute Interface Energy Meters with AMR, Unified Energy Accounting Software, VOIP connectivity SOPs, URTDSM phase-II, MPLS in ISTS communication, SCADA data mismatch solutions, a National Unified Network Management System (N-UNMS), protection audits, and communication system outage planning.
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