By Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland and Keith Gray, powering, USA The IOP hosted by UCA: Typically, every two years, the UCA International Users Group organizes the so called IOP or...
Issue 069 September 2024
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Close to Real – Simulations
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria Simulations are powerful helpers. From computer games to electrical power networks to weather forecasts, they let us explore a “what...
Forthcoming Generation Station using IEC 61850 Process Bus and...
Janos Pattantyus, Denis Francesconi and Jean Raymond, Hydro-Quebec, Canada Historically, the electricity market was made up of power plants with centralized grid monitoring and control. It was a...
Considerations for the Development and Adoption of Virtual...
By Glenn Wilson, Southern Company, USA This article aims to lay the groundwork for the discussion of virtual protection systems for those who may not have had exposure to some of the concepts. Many...
Oncor’s Continued Evolution of Integrated Systems and Analytics...
By Yannan Sun and Mark Carpenter, Oncor Electric Delivery, USA After the foundational implementation of an Advanced Metering System (AMS), a Distribution Outage Management System (OMS), a Mobile Work...
The Digital Transformation of Protection, Automation, and...
by Christopher Pritchard and Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics, GmbH, Austria Digital vs. Analog Almost without noticing, most of the information we deal with today is already digital. True...
OpenSCD
OpenSCD (Open Substation Communication Designer) is an Open-Source software for creating and editing SCL (System Configuration Language) files used in IEC 61850 system engineering process. It aims to...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 069 September 2024
It is about survival by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief The digital transformation has profoundly reshaped our lives, industries, and societies over the past few decades. This sweeping change has...
Last Word
Last Word – Issue 069 September 2024
It can’t be stopped by Alex Apostolov, USA The digital transformation of electric power systems protection and control has been going on in recent decades, revolutionizing not that much what...
The Guru
Interview with Dr. Javier Amantegui
PAC World: When and where were you born? J.A.: I was born in Irun, Basque country, in Spain in 1954. PAC World: Where did you grow up and where did you go to school? J.A.: I grew up...
History
Testing Technology in the 1990s (Part 1)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria The first part of this article shall cover the first half of the 1990s. It was a decade where protection as well as...
News
Blackout Watch – Issue 069 September 2024
By Rannveig Loken, Norway Ukraine – 22 March 2024: The main 750 kilovolt (kV) “Dniprovska” power line supplying Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine was down for more...
Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference
The 77th Annual Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference was held 24-26 April 2024 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, USA. The two and a half days conference brought...
2024 PACWorld Athens Conference
The Annual PAC World conference was held 17 – 19 June 2024 in Athens, Greece. This was the second time that the conference came to the Balkans after visiting Sofia in 2018. The Eugenides Foundation...
IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference
The event was held May 6 to May 9, 2024, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, USA This year IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition was held under the theme...
IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
The 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting was held 21 – 25 July 2024 in Seattle, USA. The Seattle Convention Center was the conference venue. The theme of the event this year “The New...
OpenSCD
OpenSCD (Open Substation Communication Designer) is an Open-Source software for creating and editing SCL (System Configuration Language) files used in IEC 61850 system engineering process. It aims to...
AQ-50 Detecting even high-impedance earth faults in distribution...
Arcteq’s AQ-50 fault detection devices leave no fault unnoticed! With their superior capability to detect even the most challenging faults like high-impedance and intermittent earth faults, AQ-50...
Robert Cummings – new IEEE Life Fellow
Robert Cummings has been elevated to IEEE Life Fellow “for leadership in power system disturbance analysis and standardization of power system protection and reliability”. Currently he is the...
Zenon 14 – Lead transition
Energy expert COPA-DATA helps you to push the limits with its new version 14 of the zenon Software Platform. zenon flexibly integrates in engineering tool chains and provides excellent...
Marianna Vaiman – new IEEE Fellow
Marianna Vaiman has been elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to transmission and distribution grids.“ She is the co-founder and CEO of V&R Energy. She has over 30 years of experience in...
Industry Updates
IEC TC 57 WG 17 Update
Digital Twins and Digital Nameplates 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
IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee PES Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee is responsible for the development of standards, guides...
CIGRE Study Committee B5
by Richard Adams, PSC, UK News from CIGRE Study Committee B5 Protection and Automation The CIGRE 2024 Paris Session will soon take place from 25 – to 30 August and takes place between the Paris...
IEEE PES PSCC Update
by Craig Palmer, PowerComm Solutions, USA Around the time of this column’s publication, the IEEE Power & Energy Society’s Power System Communications & Cybersecurity Committee (PSCCC) is...
The service element in an SCL file
by Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland A key benefit of IEC 61850 is the integration of the engineering process in the standard. The possibility to use one single tool to design a multivendor...
