News on IEC 61850 and related Standards

IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, IEC 61970 (CIM), IEC 60870-5, DNP3, IEC 62351 (Security), ...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

The huge off-shore substation for Alpha Ventus supporting IEC 61850 has been installed in the North Sea (nice pictures ... text in German).

Background information from one of the partner companies: EWE (pdf, 950 KB)

Karlheinz Schwarz: Karlheinz Schwarz (70, CEO and owner of NettedAutomation GmbH; Karlsruhe/Germany) specializing in distributed energy systems and distributed automation systems. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur from University Siegen (Germany) in 1982. He is involved in many international standardization projects (IEC 61850 – utility automation, DER, hydro power, IEC 61400-25 – wind power, …) since 1984. He is engaged in representing main industry branches in the international standardization of real-time information modeling, engineering, configuration, and information exchange. IEC awarded Mr. Schwarz with the IEC 1906 Award in 2007 “For his strong involvement in the IEC 61850 series, …, and especially its adaptation for wind turbine control.” Core services are consulting and training of utility personal. Mr. Schwarz is the principal teacher and trainer of the seminars. He has trained more than 4,300 experts in 250 training courses all over the world. The courses are outstanding. Mr. Schwarz is a well-known authority in the application of mainstream information and communication technologies in the utility industry and general automation domain. He has published more than 100 technical papers.

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