by Bogdan Kasztenny, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Canada We have been fortunate in the first century of power system protection. Power grids have been remarkably stable from the point of...
Issue 055 March 2021
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DER Function Modeling Principles for Protection and Control...
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland and Alex Apostolov, USA The electric power industry is in a period of transitioning towards a grid with increased penetration of renewable distributed...
Semantic Interoperability of DERs Obtained by Standardized...
by Laurent Guise and Tom Berry, Schneider-Electric, France, and Frances Cleveland, Xanthus Consulting International, USA Interoperability requirements in the world of DER: Across the world, people...
Protection of Distribution Circuits with High Penetration of...
by Thomas E. McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech, USA Acknowledgement: The work is supported by the U.S. DoE Office of EERE under SETO Agreement...
Adaptive Protection System with On-line Protection Security...
by Reza Ganjavi, Martin Mangold, Rainer Krebs, Siemens, AG, Germany, and Ashok Gopalakrishnan, Yaming Zhu, Wayne Dias, Siemens, Inc., USA Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are mostly renewable...
Protection Challenges and Practices for Interconnecting Inverter...
(Based on Power System Relaying Control Committee Report of WG C32 of the System Protection Subcommittee) by Mukesh Nagpal-chair of the PSRC WGC32 of the SP Subcommittee PSRC WG 13: Chair –...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria The COVID-19 pandemic gave us a break and forced us to reconsider what we are doing. Will the reflection really turn out into substantial action...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 055 March 2021
“That’s the way we always did it” simply doesn’t work anymore by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief We have talked many times about how the world around us is changing. It is not only the...
Last Word
It is winter. What can we do?
We live in the time of climate change that is having a significant impact on our lives and that we’re trying to help by producing more and more power based on distributed renewable energy...
The Guru
Interview with PAC World guru S.S. Mani Venkata
PAC World: When and where were you born? S.S.V.: I was born on June 28, 1942 in Nellore, South India, during the Second World War. My father, a distribution engineer in State Electricity Boards in...
History
Tests in the Grid or with Network Models the 1920s (Part 1)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria In the last issue we described secondary testing of relays utilizing test circuits and first test sets to produce...
News
IEC 61850 USA 2021
The inaugural IEC 61850 USA 2021 was organized as virtual conference due to the continuing safety concerns and travel restrictions. It brought together pioneering IEC 61850 implementation leaders and...
5th Annual Canadian Protection Symposium,2020
The Canadian Protection Symposium was held Virtually 1 – 3 December 2020. The 5th Annual Canadian Protection Symposium was originally scheduled to take place in Toronto, Canada in December 2020...
Australian Protection Symposium (APS)
The 12th Australian Protection Symposium was originally scheduled to take place in March 2020, just at the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This forced the organizers to urgently reschedule...
7th Annual IEC 61850 Global, 2020
IEC 61850 Global was originally scheduled to be held in Brussels, Belgium, but had to be converted to a two-day virtual event. The theme of the conference was “Driving the large-scale deployment of...
EEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe
The 10th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe) Conference was organized by the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, which for more than 175 years has been one...
Blackout Watch – Issue 055 March 2021
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 Darwin...
Secure & Scalable IEC 61850 Protocol Translation
Introducing v5.0 of Triangle MicroWorks SCADA Data Gateway now supporting Linux and a web-based user interface allowing for multiple users. Triangle’s reliable & trusted SCADA Data Gateway has...
Reliable and Cost-effective DTT leveraging “GOOSE”
SDFA-DTT is an IEC 61850 solution that was developed by Siemens to address the reliability and cost issues experienced by many energy utilities that use either leased telephone lines (from Telekom...
RELY-SEC: a global monitoring and security solution
A few years ago, the challenge was developing reliable and robust technologies and incorporating them into substation equipment. Nowadays, HSR/PRP and PTP technologies have been deployed in...
StationGuard now supports 104, DNP3, Modbus, Synchrophasor and...
StationGuard is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) tailor-made for substations. Together with its robust hardware platform RBX1, it helps to protect substations worldwide against cyber-attacks. In...
Industry Updates
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, Ramboll, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation 2021 is the centennial year for CIGRE, having been formed back in 1921. There are three CIGRE webinars...
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 61850 (an overview)
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland In our line of work, finding the best compromises requires good interaction between the parties involved. Building a mutual trust between the experts is...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by James Formea, Eaton, USA The IEEE PES Power System Communications and Cybersecurity Committee (PSCCC) was pleased to conduct another series of virtual meetings jointly with the Power System...
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
IEC 61850 goes Agile with beta release code components for pilot projects by Laurent Guise, France IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent electronic device communication and...
