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).

IEC 61580 training in Rome, Italy

IEC 61850 standard is becoming more and more widespread in electric power industry today. А great number of installations and R&D activities involve application of IEC 61850 and many vendors offer IEC 61850 compliant products with less alternatives every other day. These circumstances call for the improvement of engineers’ competence. We are glad to invite engineers of your company to participate in the unique 5-day training course – Development, design, commissioning and maintenance of IEC 61850 compliant systems, which will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 7-11, 2016.

Fault recording in digital substations

Using which IEC 61850 services fault recorders in digital substations must acquire data? How the architecture of fault recording systems must change in digital substation? Experts talk.

Transmission of data structures in a GOOSE message

GOOSE-messaging has been covered a lot in many technical papers and to add anything valuable to the subject is rather difficult. But we will try. And functional constrained data will help us with that.

How to monitor IEC 61850 traffic?

There are several applications that can be used for monitoring IEC 61850 traffic in the Ethernet network. But there is one free-of-charge option everyone should know about.

Alstom Technology and Schneider Electric patented merging unit

Abstract for the patent Merging unit and method of operating a merging unit states the following: A merging unit including at least one input interface for receiving input data characterizing at least one voltage and/or current related to a component of a...

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