AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division recently announced that it will supply intelligent electronic devices to important smart grid research by the U.S.-based Electric Power Research Institute.
Reinforcing its ongoing commitment to smart grid development, Areva T&D will provide EPRI with thirteen different IEDs, to be used in the Institute’s labs to be located at existing facilities in Knoxville, Tenn., Charlotte, N.C., and Lenox, Mass.
The devices will facilitate EPRI’s work on issues related to implementing the smart grid, and will include IEDs for:
• Distance protection
• Transformer protection
• Line current differential management
• Feeder management
• Phasor measurement
• GPS time synchronization