IEC 61850 – for much more than substations

Abstract

IEC61850 is a standardized concept for information handling and communication for power utility automation. It is NOT just another protocol. IEC 61850 is today being expanded to apply to many domains beyond the original scope of the substation. Figure 1 illustrates the Expansion of IEC 61850 world to both control centre communication and modelling of communication with renewable energy resources.Godkänd; 2010; Bibliografisk uppgift: Nicholas Etherden from STRI has a MSc in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden, 2001 and is currently an industrial postgraduate student at Luleå University of Technology. He has several years experience from the development of a new IED family for IEC 61850 as application engineer, project manager and product marketing manager at ABB. Since 2008 he is responsible for the STRI IEC 61850 Independent Interoperability Laboratory. He is active in the IEC 61850 standardisation work and member of IEC TC 57 working group 10 and UCA Iug testing subcommittee; 20111216 (niceth