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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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...
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...
