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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Featured Articles
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...
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...