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).

Bye-bye batteries? MIT's new power sponge could hold key to electric cars

A new non-carbon material could lead the way to supercapacitors that challenge batteries for capacity but with far superior output. MIT researchers have developed an electrically-conductive sponge with a huge surface area that could pave the way for power storage that challenges today's batteries.

FITNESS Pilot: Are You Fit For The Future?

Future Intelligent Transmission Network SubStation (FITNESS) is the pilot live multi-vendor digital substation demonstration in GB. The project was successfully awarded under RIIO NIC, Ofgem, in late 2015 and detailed design work began in 2016.

Extensions for IEC 61850 System Configuration Language to describe HMIs have been proposed

IEC TC 57 has published (57/1767/NP) a proposal for extending the System Configuration Language (SCL) to provide high-level direction in terms of how best to bind the HMI graphical objects with the IEC 61850 data objects/attributes using the configuration description language defined in IEC 61850-6. The concept willl be based upon the existing System Configuration Language (SCL) defined in IEC 61850-6, in addition to possibly incorporating other non-IEC namespaces such as the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) namespace.

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