By Adriano Pires, Annelise Bittencourt, Igor Cruz, BR, Brazil, and Rich Hunt, GE Grid Automation, USA Utilities are continuously looking for improvements in grid reliability: for example, finding...
Issue 053 September 2020
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Building a National Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence...
by Theo Laughner, PowerGRID-RX, Sean Murphy, PingThings, and Mohini Bariya, UC Berkley, USA Utilities are unnecessarily limited by their ability (1) to explore and quickly test hypotheses about data...
Inverted-Based Generation Monitoring and Fault Analysis
by Gefei “Derek” Kou, Penn Markham, Thomas Purcell, Ariel Valdez, Philip VanSant, Dominion Energy, USA Solar energy is becoming an essential resource in the power grid. Dominion Energy – the...
Proposal of Novel Automation Technology for Disturbances...
By Nolasco Orrego, XM S.A. E.S.P., and Felipe Quintero, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia Colombia Interconnected Power System (CIPS) is an HVAC system and has an installed capacity of 16,900 MW...
Mystery Solved: Surprises Discovered with Megahertz Sampling and...
by Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Veselin Skendzic, Yanfeng Gong, Armando Guzman, Mangapathirao V. Mynam, and Jean Leon Eternod, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc, USA Traveling-wave-based...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 053 September 2020
A Time Machine by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief Many times, in our lives we wish that we could get in a time machine and travel to a moment in the past to see what exactly happened and to try to...
Last Word
Once upon a time…
0scilloperturbograph Type S – Sadir Carpentier (France) – 1960s We live at the time of digital substations, IEC 61850 sampled values and GOOSE messages, IEEE 1588 precision time...
The Guru
The Guru – Lothar Fickert
Interview with PAC World guru Lothar Fickert PAC World: When and where were you born? L.F.: My cradle was in Lower Saxony, where I was born on 13 January 1949. Unfortunately, my father died very...
History
Protection History
Relay Testing – Testing Devices in the 1990s (Part 3) by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria his article shall finalize our reports on the 1990s and...
News
2020 IEEE PES General Meeting – Virtual
2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting was held 3-6 August 2020 in Montreal, Canada. The vent was supposed to be held 2-6 August 2020 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with Hydro Quebec as...
Blackout Watch – Issue 053 September 2020
System Power Outages Analysis of system power outages can help us learn and avoid similar events in the future. If you have information on any blackouts, please e-mail to: editor@pacw.org Nairobi...
IEEE Fellow Class of 2020 – Mark Carpenter
Walter Mark Carpenter was elevated to IEEE Fellow for “Leadership in Standards Development for Power System Protection.” Mark Carpenter is Sr. Vice President of Transmission & Distribution...
StationGuard
Functional Security Monitoring for Substations OMICRONs Intrusion Detection System (IDS) StationGuard is the ideal complement to protect the substation against cyber-attacks and to find malfunctions...
Simplifying NERC CIP Compliance with SEL SDN
SEL released a new solution to streamline data collection for NERC CIP-007-6 R1 audit reporting. The solution combines SEL software-defined networking (SDN) with a new software application called...
GE’s Grid Solutions – Universal Relay – Advanced UR...
GE launches Firmware Version 8.0 for the UR family. This set of improvements delivers sub-cycle distance protection, accurate selectivity for isolated or Petersen coil systems and greater...
IEEE Fellow Class of 2020 – Sukumar Brahma
Sukumar Brahma was elevated to IEEE Fellow for “Contributions to Power System Protection with Distributed and Renewable Generation.” He received his BEng from Gujarat University in 1989, MTech from...
RFL
Second Generation of RFL GARD 8000 ETPS HPS/RFL is proud to announce the second generation of the RFL GARD 8000 Ethernet Teleprotection Module (ETPS). While this module can be used as a direct...
Relyum – GOOSE status monitoring tool in RELY-REC
RELYUM goes one step forward adding new features for Smart Grids in its device RELY-REC. The company will include a new IEC 61850 triggering tool in the firmware release that will be launched in...
COGRE Green Book – Electricity Supply Systems of the Future
Electricity supply systems play a key role among all critical infrastructures in contemporary societies. From the supply of water, goods, gas, oil, medical services, telecommunication, security, and...
Industry Updates
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, Ramboll, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation The Paris Session is a time when, normally, all 16 Study Committees would join together for a week at the...
IEEE PES PSRC Update
by Catherine Dalton, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) PES Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee is responsible for the development of standards, guides and reports covering...
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
The pandemic is drastically changing the way standardization is working, but Does it really affect its efficiency? by Laurent Guise, France IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent...
The parts of IEC 61850
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland I thought it might be useful to dedicate a column providing an overview of the various parts of IEC 61850. Occasionally people tell me they have no idea...
