by Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech, USA The IEC61850 standard evolved through many innovations and attempts to harness the benefits of these innovations. Pivotal was the development of the first...
Issue 061 September 2022
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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 061 September 2022
When I was starting my career as a protection engineer half a century ago, we were living in an analog world. Everything we used was hard wired and performed a single function. And when I think about...
Last Word
The Road to Digitalization
by Eric Udren, Quanta Technology, USA This issue has memorialized George D. Rockefeller, originator of the computer-based protective relay. Separately, it presents the vision of future PAC...
The Guru
Interview with Pac World guru TW Cease
TW Cease graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1972 and later joined the Tennessee Valley Authority. Most of his work was in research and development on...
History
Testing Technology in the 1950s (Part 1)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria For the design and testing of relay protection systems the recommendations of the vendors as well as national and...
News
EC 61850 Week 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting
The technical program theme this year was “Powering a Sustainable Future in a Changing World.” The 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting was held 17-21 July 2022 at the Sheraton...
Georgia Tech Protective Relay Conference
The 75th Annual Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference was held 4-6 May 2022 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, USA. This specialized annual event was the first in person...
DistribuTech 2022
After a two-year break, one of the leading annual transmission and distribution events returned to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. After being rescheduled from the original dates at the...
PAC World Global Conference 2022
The Annual PAC World conference was held in Prague, Czech Republic from 21 to 24 June 2022. After two consecutive virtual conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic the participants from more than 30...
George D. Rockefeller (31.12.1927-15.7.2022)
Transformed the Protection, Automation, and Control World Our industry lost George Dorwort Rockefeller, the inventor of the computer-based protective relay, on July 15, 2022, at age 94. PAC...
Blackout Watch – Issue 061 September 2022
Analysis of system power outages can help us learn and avoid similar events in the future. If you have information on any blackouts, please e-mail to: editor@pacw.org Albania, 9 June 2022: Lightning...
IEC 61850 Interoperability Tests
By Herb Falk, UCA VP of Testing The recent IEC 61850 Interoperability tests were divided into two distinct test campaigns. The Substation Configuration Language testing was performed virtually in...
Modular universal protection relay– SIPROTEC 7SX85
As part of the SIPROTEC 5 platform family the modular universal protection relay SIPROTEC 7SX85 impresses with high performance and an extensive function library. One device type covers all...
Black box control integration for the RTDS Simulator
The GTSOC is a new auxiliary hardware component for the RTDS® Simulator. The GTSOC uses FPGA and multi-processor system-on-a-chip technology to facilitate the integration of black box control models...
Dale Douglass Award for Technical Advancement
Dr. Alexander Apostolov is the 2022 recipient of the CIGRE U.S. National Committee’s Dale Douglass Award for Technical Advancement “for leadership and participation in CIGRE technical activities...
Industry Updates
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
Grid systems and Customer Energy Management Systems – convergence or conflict IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent electronic device communication and associated data models for...
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 The CIGRE Session 2022 will soon take place from 28 August to 02 September 2022 at the Palais...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
The Need for Enhanced Security Integration by Ryan Quint, NERC, USA The North American bulk power system is among the nation’s most critical infrastructures. Virtually every facet of modern society...
Interoperability
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland The lessons we have learned will hopefully lead to improving interoperability regarding the data model. One of the goals of IEC 61850 is to achieve...
