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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Beyond Digitization of Protection and Control
by Rich Hunt, Eric Udren, Juergen Holbach, Damir Novosel, Quanta Technology, USA The electric industry has reached an inflection point for future architecture of protection, automation, and...
Efficient commissioning and operation utilizing analogies...
by Burak Tahincioglu, OMICRON electronics GmbH Austria Having a well-designed secondary project is considered as a key element for a substation. Secondary schematics consist of many subparts...
Substation Protection and Control virtualization revolution
by Marco Nunes, ABB, Switzerland The first centralized protection architectures pilots started 45 years ago, under Westinghouse and GE, with microprocessor-based technology relays, allowing...
TR IEC 61850 90-30 – Guidelines for IEC 61850 Function...
The next step towards improved engineering efficiency Jorg Reuter, Helinks LLC, Switzerland TR IEC 61850 90-30 extends the SCL language and the IEC 61850 engineering process by powerful specification...
Digitalization and Disturbance Analysis
Applying disturbance analysis and monitoring in IEC 61850 based digital substations by Rene Midence and Anderson Oliveira, ERLPhase Power Technologies, Canada, and Nuwan Perera, Stantec, Canada Smart...
One Size Fits All
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Any customer can have a car painted any color he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford’s statement may sound somehow harsh today, but...
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...
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...
RelaySimTest’s small-sized Interactive System Simulation
The latest version of RelaySimTest introduces the functionality of Interactive System Simulation (test set with NET-2 interface required). It can continuously output the current state of the power...
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
Kenneth Martin is the 2022 recipient of the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award. He received it “For leadership in and sustained contributions to standards for synchrophasor measurements and...
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...
