Frequency event monitoring for all three interconnections

Project Status: 
Completed

LBNL coordinated activities of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which was funded via a subcontract from PNNL, to implement a system that records and sends in real time automated notifications to NERC on frequency events occurring in all three U.S. interconnections. The frequency event monitoring system, called FNet, is based on low-cost frequency monitoring devices that are connected via wall plugs from a broad network of locations spread across each of the three interconnections. Recorded events from FNet are also used as the basis technical studies conducted in support of revisions to NERC Standard BAL-003.