IEC TC 57 Just Published Draft IEC TS 618540-1-2 - Extending IEC 61850

IEC TC 57 just published the 43 page draft 57/2084/DTS:

Communication networks and systems for power utility automation IEC 61850-1-2 -
Guideline on extending IEC 61850

CLOSING DATE FOR VOTING: 2019-06-07

Excerpt of the draft:
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1 Scope
This document is intended for any users but primarily for standardization bodies that are considering using IEC 61850 as a base standard within the scope of their work and are willing to extend it as allowed by the IEC 61850 standards. The document identifies the required steps and high-level requirements in achieving such extensions of IEC 61850 and provides guidelines for the individual steps. Within that scope, the document addresses the following cases:

• The management of product-level standards for products that have an interface based on IEC 61850
• The management of domain-level standards based on IEC 61850
• The management of transitional standards based on IEC 61850
• The management of private namespaces based on IEC 61850
• The development of standards offering the mapping of IEC 61850 data model at CDC level
• The development and management of IEC 61850 profiles for domains (underlying the role of IEC 62361-103 and IEC 61850-7-6)

The document includes both technical and process aspects :
On the technical side, the document:

• Reminds the main basic requirements (mostly referring to the appropriate parts of the series which host the requirements or recommendations)
• Lists all possible flexibilities offered by the standards
• Defines which flexibilities are allowed/possible per type of extension cases

On the process side, the document covers:

• The initial analysis of how the existing IEC 61850 object models and/or communication services may be applied and what allowed extensions may be required for utilizing them in new or specific domains (including private ones). The results of that step are expected to be documented
• The extension of the IEC 61850 object models for new domains. The typical associated work is to identify existing logical nodes which can be reused “as is”, to determine if existing logical nodes can be extended, or to define new logical nodes
• The purpose and process to use transitional namespaces, which are expected to be merged eventually into an existing standard namespace
• The management of standard namespaces
• The development of private namespaces

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It is highly recommended to have a closer look at this document and review the content in detail. Because in the end it will be used as a very crucial "cook-book" for those that need to extend the standard series IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25.

Just published: Draft Technical Report IEC 61850-90-17 (Using IEC 61850 to transmit power quality data)

IEC TC 57 just publsihed the Draft Technical report (57/1676/DTR):
IEC 61850-90-17 TR: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 90-17: Using IEC 61850 to transmit power quality data
Voting terminates on 2016-04-08

This document provides
• Guidelines for using of IEC 61850 in the power quality application domain,
• Name space extensions required for power quality function assessment,
• Profile for using IEC 61850 in the specific context of IEC 61000-4-30.
Specific Power Quality requirements that are not 100 % covered by existing Logical
Nodes (LN) or Common Data Classes (CDC) (e.g. LN for continuous power quality recorders,
LN for RVC…) are defined here.
The document defines a lot of configuration values for specific applications. This document helps to increase the interoperability to a high degree.

This document will serve as a very helpful Guideline in the Power Quality Domain.
Power Quality devices produce huge amounts of values .. these must be communicated with a variety of services: Read, Report, Log, or Files like COMTRADE, PQDIF, or COMFEDE. This TR discusses these for the various applications.