Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.
Microsoft announced Tuesday it was expanding its strategic partnership with ABB, just as the Swiss engineering firm was rebuffing investor calls to split up its business.
IEC TC 57 distributed a proposal from ENTSO-E to add some features to IEC 61850 (57/1771/DC).
IEC TC 57 has published the Draft Edition 6 of the CIM base (57/1779/FDIS): IEC 61970-301: Energy management system application program interface (EMS-API) - Part 301: Common information model (CIM) base
The IEC 62443 standard is the first that provides a basis for IT security certification for industrial automation and control systems.
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?
CIGRE Distinguished Member and Chairman of Study Committee B5 - Iony Patriota de Siqueira - informed that Working Group B5.14 has just finished a technical brochure (TB 644) on Wide Area Protection & Control Technologies, which is to be published on www.e-cigre.org, with a summary on the October edition on Electra Magazine.
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.
IEC TC 57 proposes a new work item (57/1768/NP) IEC 61850-7-7: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 7-7: Basic communication structure – Machine-processable format of IEC 61850-related data models for tools (proposed 61850-7-7). Closing date for voting: 2016-11-25.
Newton-Evans Research Company disclosed some of the findings of 2016 North American Protective Relay Marketplace report. The findings in this report are based on survey responses received from 79 electric utilities that include 16 investor-owned, 28 public power, 26 cooperatives, 4 electric power consulting groups, and 5 Canadian electric utilities.
A local area network is critical infrastructure in a digital substation. Experts in the area of relay protection and automatic as well as automated process control systems run into it with increasing frequency, while the number of questions such as, ‘How to design it?’, ‘How to maintain it?’, ‘How to evaluate its security and effectiveness?’ only increases.
The exponential rate at which IT/OT integration is taking place calls for advanced approaches to utility cyber-security to ensure the resilience of smart infrastructures. And with senior management investment support at an all-time high, smart utility cyber-security leaders must step up to the challenge of driving the implementation of next generation cyber-security strategies, technologies, and processes. At the 3rd annual SmartSec Europe 2016 conference (November 29-30, 2016 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands), exhibition and networking forum, 120+ utility IT and OT cyber-security leaders come tog