By Herbert Falk, UCA International User Group, USA The UCA International User Group (UCAIug) Interoperability tests (IOPs) have occurred bi-annually since 2011. In looking forward to the 2021-2022...
Issue 054 December 2020
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The Benefits of the UCA IEC 61850 IOP
By Herbert Falk, UCA International User Group, USA The UCA International User Group (UCAIug) Interoperability tests (IOPs) have occurred bi-annually since 2011. In looking forward to the 2021-2022...
Utilizing IEC 61850 Standard for the circuit based wide area...
Andre Smit, Dr. Alexandr Stinskiy, and Suraj Chanda, Siemens, USA, and Christopher Huff, Southern California Edison, USA The modern distribution grid is rapidly evolving with increased penetration of...
Using and Securing Routable GOOSE for Wide Area Protection in...
Ralph Mackiewicz, SISCO, Inc, USA C-RAS is a non-device centric architecture for implementing an automatic RAS processing system that enables very fast operating under fault conditions over a wide...
From Specification to the Substation – The OSMOSE Project...
by Claudio Silva, Efacec, Portugal, and Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland The OSMOSE project is a H2020 EU funded project answering the call for a ’Demonstration of system integration with...
Improving a Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) system in a...
by W. Caman, Luz del Sur, (Peru), I. Otarola (Peru), and J. Uzcategui (Venezuela), SOLTEC Soluciones Teleinformaticas y Control, D. Silva and A. Bittencourt, GE Grid Automation, Brazil The SET San...
Pilot Projects
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Pilot projects are a great thing. We can try out new things with managed expectations and under relaxed conditions. If it is not a disguised...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 054 December 2020
Ask the experienced… by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief Our industry has been working on the development of the IEC 61850 standard for more than a quarter of a century. We already have thousands of...
Last Word
Still growing…
After the first edition of IEC 61850 was introduced as a communication standard for substation automation more than 15 years ago, it has been steadily growing in popularity based on the positive...
The Guru
Interview with PAC World guru Harold Kirkham
PAC World: When and where were you born? H.K.: I was born in 1943 in Birmingham, England, a large industrial town in the middle of the country. PAC World: Where did you grow up and where did you go...
History
Testing of relays until the end of the 1920s
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria The last issues covered the history of relay test sets. Now we are going to continue on testing guidelines and...
News
Western Protective Relay Conference (WPRC)
The 47th annual Western Protective Relay Conference was scheduled for 19 – 22 October 2020 at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington, USA. However, due to the pandemic the 2020...
IEEE Transmission and Distribution Latin America
IEEE T&D Latin America was held Virtually 28 September – 1 October 2020. The IEEE Transmission and Distribution Latin America conference was scheduled to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay from 29...
7th Protection, Automation & Control World Americas...
The 7th annual PACWAC was scheduled for 31 August – 3 September 2020. After the global conference in Prague at the end of June 2020 was cancelled, we made the decision to move from a face to face...
2020 CIGRE B5 Session, Paris, France
The 2020 CIGRE Session was, as usual, scheduled for the last week of August at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France. However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic CIGRE was forced to announce a...
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 New York City, NY, USA (7 August...
Patrick “Pat” Ryan – IEEE PES Executive Director 2007...
The PAC community is saddened by the passing of Pat Ryan, a good friend and supporter of our magazine. He courageously fought cancer while still participating in different IEEE PES events and...
OMICRON electronics
Improve Recloser and Transformer Testing The latest version of OMICRON‘s unique software for system-based protection testing, RelaySimTest 3.30, provides enhanced recloser testing support. It’s now...
SEL
Fully Featured Traveling-Wave Line Protective Relay The SEL-T401L Ultra-High-Speed Line Relay is an easy-to-use line protective relay. Based on the field experience of the SEL-T400L, SEL’s first...
COPA-DATA
The Highway to the Digital Substation Developing programming and coding technologies. Website design. Cyber space concept. COPA-DATA has extended its zenon software platform with a flexible and...
TOSHIBA GRH200, High Impedance Differential Protection
Toshiba has launched GRH200, a high impedance differential protection IED, based on the latest generation GR-200 Series IED platform. GRH200 provides phase segregated high impedance differential...
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
PES Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee is responsible for the development of standards, guides and reports covering different aspects of protection and control of electric power...
The Parts of IEC 61850 (continued)
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. In the last column, we talked about the generic...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by James Formea, Eaton, USA Like many other organizations around the world, the IEEE PES technical committees continue to adapt to the challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic situation. The...
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
DER at the edge of many domains by Laurent Guise, France IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent electronic device communication and associated data models for microgrids...
