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Latest engineering publications on IEC 61850, digital substations, PRP/HSR, and IEEE 1588 (PTPv2).

IEC TC 57 and WG 10 in Figures

IEC TC 57 Working Group 10 "Power system IED communication and associated data models" met last week in Geneva (Switzerland) at the IEC central office. Mr. Charles Jacquemart (IEC Technical Officer) presented some very interesting figures about the TC 57 and especially WG 10. The following slides are published here with the permission of Mr. Jacquemart.

Solar road pilot is built in rural Georgia

The first Wattway solar road pilot in America has popped up in rural west Georgia. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation, named for sustainable manufacturing pioneer Ray Anderson, is testing renewable technologies along an 18-mile stretch of road, and recently installed 538 square feet of Colas‘ Wattway solar road system near the border between Georgia and Alabama.

India to Build Longest 800kV UHVDC Transmission Line

ABB has teamed up with India’s national electricity grid operator Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) in a mega project worth over $640 million for ABB to deliver a transmission link that will have the capacity to bring reliable electricity to more than 80 million people. The Raigarh-Pugalur 800 kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) system will connect Raigarh in Central India to Pugalur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

Dutch trains use only clean energy

In the Netherlands all NS's 1.200.000 train trips per day are now without any CO2 emissions. The Dutch railways company NS is the world’s first railway company that gets 100% of its energy from wind energy.

More documents by IEC TC 57

IEC TC 57 has published several new documents of the standard series IEC 61850 (Communication networks and systems for power utility automation).

MODBUS Communication Protocol in RSCAD

MODBUS protocol is a master-slave/client-server messaging structure developed by Modicon in 1979. It is used extensively in the industrial manufacturing environment.

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