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SYMPOSIUM
Monday, March 9 - 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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IEC 61850 Communication Protocol
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| Moderator: | Rod Hageman, PRIT Service, Inc.
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| Participants: | TBD
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Testing technicians in the field of electrical protection have struggled to keep pace with modern protective relays and other substation IEDs since the advance of microprocessor based-devices. It seems that, before they can learn one set of devices, a completely different set is being implemented. Technicians need to spend significantly more time in training than in the recent past. Instruction manuals for “individual” relays may have 1000 pages or more. These relays typically have a tremendous amount of capability and stored information that never gets used.
Technical Committee 57 of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) has been working on a standard, IEC 61850, created to be an internationally standardized method of communication and integration with goals of supporting systems built using multivendor IEDs networked together to perform protection, monitoring, automation, metering, and control. Substation and enterprise integration and automation requires technicians with a new subset of skills to functionally test and commission these new systems. Where hardwired connections were the norm, now the modern protection technician needs to know communications skills using Ethernet, Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) messages, and others.
It is the goal of the PowerTest Symposium on IEC 61850 to provide attendees with information about implementing IEC 61850 from experts in the field including consultants, manufacturers’ representatives, and utility engineers. NETA expects that this will foster additional education on the subject, creating a pool of knowledgeable testing technicians to assist in the commissioning and troubleshooting of these systems.
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