by Thomas Charton, National Grid, UK, Dieter Binon, Elia, Belgium and Rene Troost, Stedin, The Netherlands It is no secret that Protection, Automation and Control Systems (PACS) are slowly evolving...
Issue 058 December 2021
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Featured Articles
Revisiting Six-phase Line Transmission
by Alex Apostolov and S.S. (Mani) Venkata, USA Since the beginning of the 21st century the development and installation of renewable generation globally exploded exponentially becoming a source of...
Microgrid Protection Systems
by S.S.(Mani) Venkata, and Sukumar Brahma, USA Distribution-connected and behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), including generation and energy storage systems, are being increasingly...
Securing the Future Grid
by John Stewart, EPRI, USA The article describes EPRI’s Cybersecurity Vision 2030 My first personal experience with a utility cyber event began with an unusual email. This email was not however, part...
Common Substation Platform
by Paul Myrda, EPRI, USA and Herb Falk, OTB Consulting, USA Substations are becoming more complex both in the power delivery aspects but also in terms of the need to handle wide ranging data...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 057 September 2021
Not If but When by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief It was not that long ago when people were asking should we build a digital substation and the answer to this question is already obvious – yes, we...
Last Word
The Digital Substations Market Growth
The development of the IEC 61850 standard has been going on for a quarter of a century and we already know that there are thousands of substations using this technology all over the world. So, one of...
The Guru
Interview with PAC World guru Mark Adamiak
PAC World: When and where were you born? M.A.: 1953 in Teaneck, NJ, USA. PAC World: Where did you go to school? M.A.: St. Joseph’s grammar school, Demarest, NJ; Bergen Catholic HS, Oradell NJ;...
History
Testing Technology in the 1930s (Part 2)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria After the introduction and the first details in the first article, we will continue with more details on the...