Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.
General Electric announced that it will provide the Global Thermal Generation division of Enel (Europe’s largest power utility in terms of market capitalization) with its Predix-based software solutions to be deployed as predictive diagnostic tool in 14 of Enel’s thermal power plants located in Europe and Latin America, supporting their digitalization.
The draft of the first amendment to IEC 62351-3 (“Power System Security”) was published — IEC 62351-3/AMD1 ED1 (57/1894/CDV).
This paper summarizes the experience gained during a series of practical cybersecurity assessments of various components of Europe’s smart electrical grids.
The company will supply a $16 million hybrid substation for a wind farm. It will be the first hybrid substation in the country.
The Stanford researchers published a paper describing a program they built to model Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) deployment in a way that will result in the lowest cost to grid operators.
Enel signed a two-year agreement with Amber Kinetics, the US-based start-up born out of an initiative of professors and researchers from UC Berkeley, with the aim of jointly assessing the start-up’s innovative “flywheel” storage technology, which is an electromechanical system consisting of a large rotating mass able to store energy.
The pace of adoption for electric cars over the next few years “could be surprising” and changing the global energy and auto industries faster than people expect, said Enel Chief Executive Officer Francesco Starace in an interview with Bloomberg.
Eskom and Électricité de France (EDF) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend peer cooperation in the fields of transmission and distribution of electricity.
By 2018, utilities should see significant improvement in smart glasses, helmets, and other augmented reality devices, concludes an EPRI study.
DONG Energy has decided to retire «Vindeby», the world’s first offshore wind farm, which 25 years ago marked the birth of the offshore wind industry.
National Grid, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has selected Siemens to provide technology to help deploy the IEC 61850 digital design standards for its bulk transmission substations.
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.
GE releases new wide-area features on the field-proven Multilin UR platform of protection & control solutions.