Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.
National Grid, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has selected Siemens to provide technology to help deploy the IEC 61850 digital design standards for its bulk transmission substations.
IEC TC 57 Working Group 10 "Power system IED communication and associated data models" met last week in Geneva (Switzerland) at the IEC central office. Mr. Charles Jacquemart (IEC Technical Officer) presented some very interesting figures about the TC 57 and especially WG 10. The following slides are published here with the permission of Mr. Jacquemart.
GE releases new wide-area features on the field-proven Multilin UR platform of protection & control solutions.
IEC TC 57 has published several new documents of the standard series IEC 61850 (Communication networks and systems for power utility automation).
The 3rd Annual IEC 61850 Europe 2016 conference, exhibition and networking forum held in Amsterdam drew together 150+ IEC 61850 experts and decision makers from across the European utility sector.
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.
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published a draft Security Framework (173 pages).
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.
IEC TC 57 distributed a proposal from ENTSO-E to add some features to IEC 61850 (57/1771/DC).
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.
Can DANEO 400 from Omicron electronics be effectively used at commissioning and maintenance stages as the only IEC 61850 instrument?
IEC TC 57 has proposed a new part for IEC 61850 (57/1766/DC): IEC TR 61850-90-20 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 90-20: Guideline to redundancy systems. As more application domains are added to the IEC 61850, additional modelling, description and functional capabilities needs to be added to the “core” of IEC 61850. And one of such capabilities is redundancy.
IEC TR 61850-90-14 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation - Part 90-14: Using IEC 61850 for FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) data modelling has been published as draft for comments of the industry.