By Thomas Charton, NGET, UK, Dieter Binon, Elia, Belgium, Volker Leftoff, RTE, France, Lei Xu, NR Electric, China, and Takaya Shono, Toshiba, Japan Starting from about 2015, an increasing number of...
Issue 066 December 2023
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Featured Articles
LANDSNET’s Road to Fully Digital Transmission System
By Birkir Heimisson, Landsnet, Iceland LANDSNET the national transmission system operator in Iceland, is in the process of rolling out multiple fully Digital Substations on its transmission network...
What we have learned after testing many digital substations
by Diego Gasca and Burak Tahinsioglu, OMICRON electronics, GmbH, Austria Why build a digital substation? There are several reasons why utilities are building digital substations, in many cases the...
Virtualized Centralized Protection and Control –...
By A. Kulmala, O. Raipala, P. Hovila, ABB, Finland, and B. Yazadzhiyan, R. Dantas, C. Scoble, UK Power Networks, United Kingdom ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work is carried out through the Constellation...
Rolling the DICE on IEC 61850
By J. Deverick, N. Bilimoria, J. Grimes, J. Schlank, S. Vajpayee, and P. VanSant, Dominion Energy, K. Gray, POWER Engineers Inc., R. Hunt, Quanta Technology, and T. Grigg, Schweitzer Engineering...
If it is not intuitive, get used to it!
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Way too often, we are confronted with miserable user interfaces, not only since we have been using computers. Sadly, honest feedback about...
Towards an Industrial Deployment of Fully Digital PACS at RTE
By Volker Leitloff, Olivier Lopez, Jean-Marie Boisset, Maud Merley, Xavier Michaut, Jean-Etienne Lemaire, and Thibaut Ratel, RTE, France Why to go for fully digital PACS? In the past two...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 066 December 2023
The Global Experience with IEC 61850 based Digital Substations by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief Wherever we look around us we can see the digital transformation of all aspects of our lives and the...
Last Word
Make the switch!
by Alex Apostolov, USA The IEC 61850 standard has been around for more than 20 years and in the last several years I have been visiting digital substations at all corners of the globe. I am...
The Guru
Interview with PACW guru Prof. Dr. Peter Crossley
PAC World: When and where were you born? P.C.: I was born in 1956 in Harle Syke, a village within the parish of Briercliffe and located three miles East of Burnley, Lancashire, England...
History
Testing Technology in the 1970s (Part 2)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria In the 1970s, the Bayernwerk AG, BAG (Western Germany), used a programmable, automatic testing station for distance...
News
2023 CIGRE Symposium
The symposium was organized by CIGRE Australia under the theme “The End to End Electricity System: transition, development, operation, and integration.” The CIGRE International Symposium...
PAC World Americas Conference 2023
The event was held 28-31 August 2023 at the Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, USA. For the first time the Americas conference was preceded on Monday by a half day tutorial “Utility...
Protection Automation Conference Southeast Asia
SEAPAC was held 5th of September 2023 in Cairns, Australia. The South East Asia Protection and Automation Conference (SEAPAC) was held in parallel with the CIGRE International Symposium. This event...
Western Protective Relay Conference
The 50th annual Western Protective Relay Conference was held 9-12 October 2023 at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington, USA. The conference is organized by Washington State University...
Cyber-Informed Engineering
by Emma Stewart, Virginia Wright and Sam Chanoski, INL, USA The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law kick-started a surge in clean energy investments in the United States. Amid the clean energy transition...
Rugged Substation Automation Computer
The RSAPC Mk2 is Welotec’s answer to the challenges of modern energy systems, ensuring uninterrupted power and security. This IEC 61850-3 certified Rugged Substation Automation Computer is not just...
Protocol Simulator and Test Set
The ASE2000 Protocol Simulator and Test Set helps the user troubleshoot SCADA / RTU, IED and DER protocol communications and equipment behavior in the field or in the control center or cloud. ...
Key Distribution Center (KDC) Client
Using Routable GOOSE between substations based on UDP multicast messages, allows for one publisher to provide the same data to many subscribers and reduces the network engineering and maintenance...
The Crucial Role of Hardware in Cybersecurity
While software security is important, hardware is equally critical. OMICRON’s cybersecurity products offer two hardware options and a state-of-the-art virtualized platform, VBX1. RBX1...
CIGRE Philip Sporn Award
The Philip Sporn Award was established by the CIGRE US National Committee to recognize industry leaders “For cumulative career contributions to the advancement of the concept of system integration in...
Industry Updates
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
Renewable energy process control – OPC-UA and IEC 61850 by Tom Berry, Schneider-Electric IEC TC 57 WG 17 is in charge of power system intelligent electronic device communication and associated data...
IEEE PES PSRC Update
by Catherine Dalton, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Associate Management System Update: PSRC members should create a new profile on MemberPlanet. If you haven’t created your...
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, PSC, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation SC B5 participated in a very successful and well organized CIGRE Cairns 2023 International Symposium, 4th...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by Craig Palmer, PowerComm Solutions, USA The IEEE Power & Energy Society’s Power System Communications & Cybersecurity Committee (PSCCC) met three times in-person in 2023: January in...
IEC 61850 and Virtualized Protection
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland I will clarify my view of the terminology, because since when we have a new hype in our industry, everybody uses the same buzz word, however, the meaning...
