By Richard Marenbach, OMICRON electronics, Germany Operators of electrical power systems face three big challenges nowadays. The transition from carbon-based generation to renewable generation will...
Issue 067 March 2024
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Featured Articles
Testing IEC 61850 Cyber Security – Part 1 Testing Ancillary...
By Herbert Falk, Outside the Box Consulting Services, LLC, USA There are several processes involved in providing a solid stance for cyber security. The simplistic view of a cyber security cycle is:...
Optional Use of IEC 61850 Test Modes in Substations
IEC 61850 has always included test functionality, but it has not always been well understood or implemented. Let’s explore how it can be done by using functionality available since Edition 2 of the...
Interoperability Test of IEC 61850 Process Bus System
and establishment of design policy for process bus application system By S. Sakai, K. Kojima and Y. Ito, Chubu Electric Power Grid Co.,Inc, Y. Kurose and S. Iida, Toshiba Energy Systems &...
Digital Versus Conventional Substations
Comparison of Processes for Testing, Commissioning and Maintenance Methods Craig Wester, Mike Ramlachan, GE Vernova, and Eugenio Carvalheira, OMICRON electronics, USA This article introduces...
Testing Challenges of a Complete PAC Digital Substation
By Bharadwaj Vasudevan, Jake Groat, Benton Vandiver III, Hitachi Energy, USA Two editions and ten+ years of global effort to standardize the substation data models has resulted in a positive...
It’s about time to stop leaping
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) which was held in November 2022, accepted the resolution “On the use and future...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 067 March 2024
The right way to do it by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief I have been at many different conferences around the world and have seen many presentations describing protection system maloperations and...
Last Word
The Digital Transformation of testing
by Alex Apostolov, USA When we read the articles in this issue of the magazine, we notice that even that the authors come from different continents, what they have written describes various...
The Guru
Interview with PAC World guru Bill Dickerson
PAC World: When and where were you born? B.D: I was born in Midland, Michigan, USA, in 1954. PAC World: Where did you go to school? B.D.: Midland Public Schools, graduating 1972...
History
Testing Technology in the 1980s (Part 1)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Looking into the 1980s we are starting in the GDR, Eastern Germany. As a result of the comprehensive relay...
News
IEC Week 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The IEC Week was held 16-20 October 2023 at the Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport hotel, The Netherlands. This year the theme of the event was “Overcoming the cost and complexity of implementing IEC...
2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Latin America...
ISGT-LA was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico Sheraton Hotel at the T-Mobile District and was hosted by LUMA Energy – the local utility. It was the first time when an event sponsored by the IEEE Power...
8th Annual Canada Protection Symposium
The event was held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Toronto, Canada, 5-7 December 2023. It covered emerging and new protection, automation and control technologies in the electric power industry...
IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT – 2024
ISGT NA 2024 was held 19-22 February 2024 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington DC, USA. The event was sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), and the theme for this year was...
DistribuTech 2024
DistribuTech was held 27-29 February 2024 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA. This edition of the event with more than 17 thousand attendees is the largest event in the world...
Increased Solar Activity
After multiple solar flares and solar filament eruptions were observed from 21-23 January 2024, three X-class flares occurred within 24 hours on 22 February 2024 that were the strongest of this solar...
OMICRON- StationScout 2.3
StationScout simplifies testing for Substation Automation Systems (SAS) and significantly reduces the required testing effort. It comes with a robust and powerful hardware that allows users to...
Normann Fischer – new IEEE Fellow
Normann Fischer has been elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to fault protection methodologies for electric power grids”. He has a BSEE, with honors, from the University of Cape Town in 1993...
Securing Routable GOOSE & Sampled Values
As emerging 61850 use cases require communications to extend beyond the substation, the need for a secure and routable solution has emerged. Secure Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) and Routable Sampled...
Line differential protection for MV applications
The new SEL-787L Line Current Differential Relay protects overhead and underground distribution lines and cables. Focusing on utility and industrial applications, the SEL-787L provides...
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...
