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...
News
International Conference and Exhibition Protection &...
The International Conference and Exhibition” Relay Protection and Automation for Electric Power Systems 2021” was held at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia. Due to...
9th International Conference on Advanced Power System Automation...
The 9th International APAP was held at the Booyoung Hotel & Resort in the Jeju island in Korea. The event was heldfrom 11 to 14 October 2021. The motto of the conference was “Towards...
Western Protective Relay Conference (WPRC)
The 48th annual Western Protective Relay Conference was scheduled for 18 – 21 October 2021 at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington, USA. However, due to continuing COVID-19 pandemic...
Canadian Protection Symposium – Virtual Event
The 6th AnnualCanadian Protection Symposium was originally scheduled to take place in Toronto, Canada in December 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic it had to be converted to a live virtual...
NASPI
Wide area protection, automation, monitoring and control systems play a very important role in maintaining the stability and reliability of electric power systems under different conditions. Wide...
Simplifying engineering with PCM600
ABB’s PCM600 is an easy-to-handle tool providing versatile functionalities required throughout the life cycle of protection and control IEDs in transmission and distribution applications. It is...
Xelas Energy
R-GOOSE and R-SV protocol additions Xelas Energy has implemented support of R-GOOSE and R-SV as follows: Messages are Multicast over UDP, preserving the connectionless publish/subscribe modelFull...
Accelerated factory and Site Acceptance Test
StationScout’s new features aid in successfully launching your substation automation system. Testing interlocking conditions and similar logic in the IEDs is a fundamental part of factory...
R-GOOSE Gateway
SISCO’s R-GOOSE Gateway allows the user to interconnect IEC 61850 IEDs using traditional Ethernet multicast GOOSE on Ethernet station bus with Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) running over wide area IP...
New member of NAE – Solveig Ward
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 111 new members and 22 international members, announced NAE President John Anderson. We are happy to announce that one of them is a member of our...
Industry Updates
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
IEC 61850 for Microgrids and Load Shedding 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...
IEEE PES PSRC Update
LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 PES Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee is responsible for the development of standards, guides and reports covering different aspects of protection and...
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, Ramboll, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation CIGRE Session 2022 will take place from 28 August to 02 September 2022 at the Palais des congrès in Paris...
Is hybrid the new reality?
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland I expect that the remaining two meetings this year will also be in a hybrid format, but with hopefully an increasing percentage of participants attending...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by James Formea, Eaton, USA The IEEE PES Power System Communications and Cybersecurity Committee (PSCCC) held its regular winter meeting at the IEEE PES 2022 Joint Technical Committee Meeting (JTCM)...
