IX SIMPASE - Simpósio de Automação de Sistemas Elétricos

Making Progress with Modern Solutions via IEC 61850:

Practical Smart Grid Trends in Power System Modernization.
Discussion of new developments and technologies to improve digital communications for wire reduction, faster control, and improved visibility and stability of the power system.

Hands on workshop teaching best engineering practices to design and build multivendor IEC 61850 IED networks:

Field proven installations of multifunction intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and communications demonstrate the benefits of improving and securing the flow of information from, to, and within the smart grid - distribution automation systems (DAS, substation automation systems (SAS), power management systems (PMS) and remedial action schemes (RAS).

Modernizing IED networks with newer, faster, and more reliable communications permits them to automatically and rapidly isolate faults, restore power, monitor demand, optimize supply, and maintain and restore stability.  This assures more reliable generation, transmission, and delivery, and consumption of electric power.

These IEDs observe the state of the power system, communicate to one another, and then work in an organized fashion to make educated and informed “smart” decisions, and then take action to preserve the stability and performance of the grid.

This session presented by recognized experts, explains field proven case study examples and installation methods to design, plan, build, implement, and commission modern power systems using Smart Grid and Ethernet methods including the IEC 61850 communications standard.

1.        Introduction to IEC 61850 experiences and technologies

2.        Overview of IEC 61850 system architectures

3.        Introduction to new IEC 61850 technology developments

4.        Presentation of benefits of modernization demonstrated through several world-wide multi-vendor system examples of IEC 61850 for use in transmission stability remedial action schemes, substation automation, distribution automation, industrial energy management.

5.        Demonstration of digital messaging via Ethernet and designing the logistics of network navigation for and by messages, discussion of SAS Ethernet switch requirements - network designs for today that allow SAS networks to evolve and accept new applications in the future (such as process bus, substation expansion).

6.        Discussion of environmental and communication feature demands that need to be met by IT technology before it can be safely used in the substation – importance of understanding the difference between routed layer 3 traffic (MMS, DNP, 104) and multicast layer 2 traffic (GOOSE, SV)

7.        Introduction and overview of how IEC 61850 communications methods accomplish the applications required for SAS, DAS, PMS, and RAS 

8.        Impacts of increased messaging on communications networks and IEDs including Ethernet switch behavior and IED message processing.

9.        Standardized multivendor data and message exchange performance testing and verification.

10.        Configuring and commissioning virtual wiring; software tools, analyzers, performance monitoring – explaining to engineers what is in the “network cloud”  so they have confidence in the performance of their systems.

11.        Trends in Smart Secure Station and Process Bus Systems, merging units, test devices, network analyzers – discussion of recent interoperability demonstrations.

12.        Discussion of IEC 61850 guide form specifications to aid companies in specifying applications, not just protocols, and cope with changing technologies.

13.        Methods of Ethernet redundancy.

14.        Discussion of frequently asked questions from global practitioners of IEC 61850 communications.

15.        Discussion of future developments within the IEC 61850 standard including redundancy protocols, layer 3 goose, and synchrophasor data models.