Monday, August 10, 2026

IEC 61850 covers applications inside substations AND beyond substations

IEC 61850 is applicable for general automation applications as well as for electric power delivery systems. The following lists give an impression of what kind of domains are taken into account so far ... more to come:

Information models and exchange for

  • real-time and near real-time applications  (pub/sub: GOOSE, Sampled Values)
  • protection
  • monitoring, supervision, and control (client/server TCP/IP and WebSocket)
  • substation and feeder equipment
  • substation-to-substation
  • substation-to-control centre
  • power plant-to-control centre
  • distributed generation
  • distributed energy resources
  • micro grids
  • metering
  • power quality
  • condition monitoring
  • hydro, steam, gas power plants
  • wind generation plants
  • data centers

System Configuration and engineering

  • System Configuration Language (SCL)
  • Basic Application Profiles
  • top-down-engineering (model-based engineering)
  • - …

These lists demonstrate that the standard series IEC 61850 covers applications inside substations AND beyond substations. One crucial question remains: What are the logical nodes and data objects ... from which parts of the standard series IEC 61850 are required for a specific application domain?
The answer is here: ask me.

HERE you can find a sample model for an IEC 61850 Profile for Distributed Energy Resources Supporting IEEE 1547 [pdf] ... quite interesting ...

You may search the web for MICS (IEC 61850 model implementation conformance Statement) ... 

Note that substations are very crucial components of the interconnected electric energy systems.

Let me know if you need some help.

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