by Christopher Pritchard and Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics, GmbH, Austria The long-lasting use case for time synchronized distributed testing Communication aided line protection schemes...
Issue 059 March 2022
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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 059 March 2022
A new kind of GOOSE by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief Many of us have seen flocks of geese in the sky on their way South or North depending on the season. We know that they cover huge distances, so...
Last Word
Here comes the R-GOOSE
Short circuit faults are a part of life and most of the time we have no way of controlling where and when they will occur and what is the damage that they are going to cause. The voltage sag...
The Guru
Interview with guru Hector Altuve
PAC World: When and where were you born? H.A.: I was born in Moron, Camaguey, Cuba, on October 5, 1947. PAC World: Where did you grow up and where did you go to school? H.A.: I grew up in my hometown...
History
Testing Technology in the 1930s (Part 3)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Since this is already the 3rd part of the series covering the 1930s it is obvious that a lot of things happened in...