Implementation of synchrophasor monitoring at Entergy: Tools, training and tribulations

Entergy, through its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Smart Grid Investment Grant, is leveraging the achievements and experience of their existing prototype phasor system and creating a new wide-area monitoring system with advanced decision support tools and visual graphics to assist in the management and surveillance of the Entergy grid. This paper introduces the topics for presentation at the PES General Session: 1) the decision support tools being implemented, including the challenges and risks associated with data quality and timely delivery; 2) the training and education being instituted for the formation of the foundational knowledge base required to implement these tools; and 3) the challenges we face in the wide-area deployment and integration of these decision support tools. Additional topics that will be introduced are: phasor data storage and retrieval; visualizations for the advanced software applications; and the metrics being designed to measure the success of these new tools.