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5. A connecting wall. The New York Independent System Operator's
new 64,000-ft2 primary power control center captures more
than 3,000 live status points presenting key electric system operations
and data information to enhance grid reliability and support smart grid
efforts. Courtesy: NYISO
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NYISO Opens Smart Control Center
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) this April replaced
its 44-year-old primary power control center with a stateof-the-art
facility in Rensselaer County that is outfitted with digital
monitoring technologies and harnesses grid control technologies
installed in the operator's June 2013-completed smart grid project.
The $75 million Department of Energy (DOE)-funded smart grid
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Over the past 30
years,
initiative, conducted in partnership with eight transmission-owning
utilities and power authorities, deploys phasor measurement
units that allow the grid operator to detect irregularities, predict
problems, and take corrective action. It relays system conditions
at a rate of 60 times per second (360 times faster than before) and
includes capacitor banks to improve transmission system efficiency
by reducing line losses. The new primary control center helps integrate
and process this significantly higher volume of data.
The 64,000-square-foot (ft2
) facility features a 2,300-ft2
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wall (Figure 5)-the largest of its kind in North America-that
captures more than 3,000 live status points presenting key electric
system operations data and information. The former control
center in Guilderland, built in 1969, will now serve as backup.
According to NYISO, the $38 million facility also enables improved
integration of renewable power by deploying resource management
tools such as wind forecasts, meteorological conditions,
and generation output data. The DOE said in a statement that the
new control center gives NYISO and neighboring grid control areas
a " far more expansive and in-depth view of the power grid. "
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Australia Releases Emissions Reduction Fund White Paper.
Australia's Ministry of Environment on April 24 released its
Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) White Paper, formally setting out
the final design of the carbon buy-back scheme that the current
administration has proposed to replace the country's carbon tax
and emissions trading scheme. Under the proposed ERF, which
will extend from July 2014 to 2020, the government will use
funds from a pool of capital to support " direct action " by industry
to reduce emissions. Through 2017, it will spend A$1.55
billion ($1.43 billion) and later, A$1 billion ($952 million) to buy
back lowest-cost abatement through reverse auctions. Auctions
will start in the second half of 2014 and run quarterly.
Belarus Ostrovets Nuclear Plant Gets Full Construction
OK. The Belarus Department of Nuclear and Radiation Safety
(of the Ministry of Emergencies) on April 29 issued state-owned
nuclear plant builder Belarus AEC a full construction license for
the first of two units at the Ostrovets plant. First concrete for the
1.2-GW AES-2006 model VVER reactor was poured in late 2013. The
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