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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Verification of Electronic Design Documents in SCD file format...
Requirements and Practical Experience By Alexander Semerenko, Dmitry Tretyakov, ROSSETI Volga, Alexander Golovin, Alexey Anoshin, TEKVEL R&D, Russia Using the SCL language in the design of...
Redundancy techniques in a Digital IEC 61850 substation PAC...
By Andres Rodriguez and Carlos Polanco, ENEL Codensa, Colombia, and Ivan Otarola and Julder Uzcategui, SOLTEC Soluciones Teleinformaticas y Control, Peru/Venezuela During the last years there has...
System based Protection Testing in Digital Substations
By Eugenio Carvalheira, OMICRON electronics, and Glenn Wilson, Southern Company Since the introduction of digital relays, it became evident that the test procedures adopted by the industry in the...
Process Bus Based Protection Operations
By Chu Cheng, and Randall Kimura, (retired), AltaLink Management Ltd, Canada AltaLinkhas traditionally installed P&C systemsbased on engineering standards. These standards utilize copper...
Process Interface Units and its Advantages for Full Digital...
By Adriano Oliveira Pires and Hector Leon, GE Renewable Energy, Brazil, Leandro de Marchi Pintos (Brazil), Patrick Montaner (France) and Chee-Pinp Teoh (UK), GE Renewable Energy In the context of...
If you don’t feel as if you are too early, you may be late...
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria To achieve much in your lifetime, patience is not the most useful habit There are several reasons to attend a funeral service. One is to show...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 058 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...
News
IEEE PES General Meeting 2021 – Virtual
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting was held as a virtual event 26 – 29 July 2021. The theme this year was “Managing energy business during a...
Hybrid Centennial CIGRE Session 2021
This unique Virtual Centennial Session was held between 18 and 27 August 2021. Due to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic a special Centennial Session scheduled for August 2021 in Paris to celebrate the...
IEC 61859 Week 2021 – Virtual Event
The 8th annual IEC 61850 Week 2021 was scheduled to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, but because of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic it was switched to a virtual conference, exhibition and...
PAC World Global
The global nature of the conference introduced many scheduling challenges. The continuing pandemic again had an impact on the annual PAC World conferences, so instead of meeting in person in Glasgow...
Substation Drone Attack
For many years we have been talking about different cybersecurity threats to the electric power grid that can lead to the tripping of transmission lines or substation equipment following a cyber...
Traveling Waves
NREL, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder recently completed a research project funded by the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office to study fault generated traveling waves in an electrical...
SEL-851
New Feeder Protection Relay Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has released the SEL-851 Feeder Protection Relay, which provides overcurrent, voltage, and arc-flash protection for utility and...
G100 Advanced Substation Gateway
GE is proud to announce the release of the G100 compact size, advanced gateway. G100 is modern, easy to use and configure, perfect for small and medium-sized applications. Communications are a...
Test Universe 4.30
More flexibility with Sampled Values The latest version of Test Universe,OMICRON’s solution for advanced settings-based protection testing, enables configurable data sets with up to 32 Sampled...
New features in AQ 250 series protection relays
Arcteq is launching a new firmware version for its AQ 250 series of protection and control IEDs. This new release makes the world’s most accurate protection relays even better. The new features...
Industry Updates
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update Schedules, Forecasts and Flexibility
by Tom Berry, Schneider-Electric IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent electronic device communication and associated data models for microgrids, distributed energy resources and...
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...
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, Ramboll, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation A special Virtual Centennial Session was held between 18th and 27th August. To provide a more interactive...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by James Formea, Eaton, USA The IEEE PES Power System Communications and Cybersecurity Committee (PSCCC) held its regular fall meeting with the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC) as...
Versions of the standard – what you need to know
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland As the usage of IEC 61850 is growing and new functionality is added to the standard, the standard documents are undergoing changes which result in new...
