Validation of test procedures for generic qualification of distance protections using a real-time simulator

Rte has been using Real-Time Simulation for the functional qualification of protections for many years. The recent commissioning of a new real-time simulator implied a migration of the existing test templates to the new environment and a validation of the new models. This paper explains the strategy applied for the validation, describes the issues of this migration- and validation process and gives an example of the tests applied for the qualification of a distance protection.