Monday, July 13, 2026

IEC 61850 for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

With the growth of planning and installation of BESS the question is discussed, how IEC 61850 could contribute. A lot!

Have a look at three posters that depict the architecture of an electric system that includes batteries ... with some comments from me:

Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3

See also a paper on the use of IEC 61850-7-420 (DER) from the year 2014.

Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 7-420: Basic communication structure –
Distributed energy resources and distribution automation logical nodes

Preview of IEC 61850-7-420 (2021).

A few excerpts:


The DER storage Logical Nodes in IEC 61850-7-420 have hundreds of Data Objects ... see just a few:



IEC TC 57 offers a name space document listing the syntay of all logical nodes and data objects:

That (light) name space is an xml document with 5520 lines !!! The light name space contains the syntax of the models ... the textual semantic is missing ... comes with the purchase of the standard IEC 61850-7-420.

I am confident that IEC 61850 offers the most crucial information models for BESS.

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