Digital Substation

Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.

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Latest engineering publications on IEC 61850, digital substations, PRP/HSR, and IEEE 1588 (PTPv2).

Dutch trains use only clean energy

In the Netherlands all NS's 1.200.000 train trips per day are now without any CO2 emissions. The Dutch railways company NS is the world’s first railway company that gets 100% of its energy from wind energy.

More documents by IEC TC 57

IEC TC 57 has published several new documents of the standard series IEC 61850 (Communication networks and systems for power utility automation).

MODBUS Communication Protocol in RSCAD

MODBUS protocol is a master-slave/client-server messaging structure developed by Modicon in 1979. It is used extensively in the industrial manufacturing environment.

Joint US & Canada electric grid security and resilience strategy

The Joint United States-Canada Electric Grid Security and Resilience Strategy (Strategy) is a collaborative effort between the Federal Governments of the United States and Canada and is intended to strengthen the security and resilience of the U.S. and Canadian electric grid from all adversarial, technological, and natural hazards and threats.

70 Billion Kilowatt Hours A Year To Run The Internet

America’s myriad server farms and data centers operate 100 million drives that hold 350 million terabytes of data — everything from your decade-old emails to lolcat videos and the collected offerings of Netflix.

IEC 61850-9-2 LE Sampled Value Publisher

The SystemCorp "IEC 61850-9-2 LE Sampled Value Publisher" is a hardware platform for specific sampled value publisher applications for the Smart Grid IoT Platform from Novtech using the Altera (now part of Intel) dual core ARM/FPGA Cyclone V SoC.

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