2020 - IEC 61850 Events in UK, USA and Belgium

Dear All,
Please note the following IEC 61850 training opportunities and conferences:

3-Day Training for Electrical Engineers New to IEC 61850
17-19 March 2020
London, UK

IEC 61850 USA 2020
Driving the large-scale deployment of IEC 61850 across the smart grid
14-16 July 2020 
New Orleans, USA

IEC 61850 Global 2020
Leveraging advanced IEC 61850 features to drive interchangeability within the substation and across the wider smart grid
26-30 October 2020
Brussels, Belgium

Megger Organizes the First Latin American Protection Conference 6-7 November

Primera edición del Congreso Latinoamericano de Protecciones

La primera edición del Congreso Latinoamericano de Protecciones (https://www.eventosmeggercsa.com) a desarrollarse los días 6 y 7 de noviembre del corriente año en el Hotel Meliá, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

El evento reúne a especialistas y líderes en la implementación de sistemas de protecciones orientado a la experiencia del usuario final. Se dirige a lograr un panorama sobre el estado actual y futuro de los sistemas de protecciones dentro de la subestación y en la red más amplia en América Latina.
El programa de dos días abarca ponencias de usuarios, fabricantes, especialistas y expertos, seguido del tutorial de dos horas de duración sobre los Factores de éxito para la utilización de IEC 61850 dirigido por el Ing. Carlos Samitier centrada en los estudios de caso de implementación de IEC 61850 a nivel global, los errores más frecuentes y cómo evitarlos. Además, de los paneles sobre futuras aplicaciones en mantenimiento en IEC 61850 con la participación de los especialistas en tecnologías de ensayo de protecciones.

Los ejes temáticos están relacionados con los Avances y tendencias en IEC 61850, Esquemas avanzados en protecciones, Ensayos automatizados de protecciones eléctricas, Lecciones aprendidas en activaciones de protecciones, Comunicaciones para protecciones, entre otros.

In case you are interest to share your experiences at the conference, contact Mr. Roberto Sartori (Roberto.Sartori@megger.com).

IEC 61850 Europe 2017 Conference and Exhibition in September 2017

The largest conference and exhibition on IEC 61850 and related topics invites you:

Multi-Vendor Multi-Edition IEC 61850
Implementation & Operation
3-Day Conference, Exhibition & Networking Forum
26-28 September 2017 
Novotel Amsterdam City
The Netherlands

Now firmly established as the European end-user forum for IEC 61850 experts and implementation leaders, this dedicated 3-day conference, exhibition and networking forum provides the information, inspiration, and connections you need to propel your IEC 61850 deployments further faster!

This year’s end-user driven programme explores the opportunities and challenges presented by sophisticated multi-vendor multi-edition IEC 61850 implementation, operation and maintenance. Utility experiences of advanced functionalities such as Process Bus, GOOSE Messaging, PRP & HSR, and Time Synchronisation are evaluated in the context of digital substations, as well as inter-substation, substation to SCADA systems, substation to metering infrastructure, and substation to DER.

Click HERE for the details of the event.

Attending this conference will give you a flavor of the market for IEC 61850 based systems.

After the conference you may have a lot of questions and my look for some senior experts that will guide you vendor-independently into the magic of the standard series.

Please have a look what kind of training FMTP and NettedAutomation offer you in October and December 2017 in Karlsruhe (Germany).

PAC World Conference (13-16 June 2016) at the University of Ljubljana

The Seventh Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) World Conference will take place from 13 June to 16 June 2016 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Members of the PAC World community, professionals from utilities and universities, manufacturers and consultants, are invited to take part in a unique event that will help us build better understanding and knowledge in our industry.
The conference format is unique not only in bringing experts from different domains of the PAC space together in the same room. The conference will be held in six half-day sessions. More than 100 papers from 33 countries will be presented during the three full days of the conference in oral and poster sessions.
This format will allow us to capture the pulse of our industry and to provide to the participants at the conference and the members of the PAC World community around the globe a snapshot of the state of technology, challenges, experience and future developments that will shape protection, automation and control systems as part of the Smart Grid of the future.

Click HERE for the details, program, registration, etc.

One crucial topic will be IEC 61850. Many or even most of the 60 presentations are linked to IEC 61850 - one way or the other.

SystemCorp, SISCO, Triangle Microworks, and other companies will present their stacks, API, applications, ... and how to build IEC 61850 Gateways like HMS:

Click HERE for more details on the HMS Gateways.

Detlef Raddatz (SystemCorp) will present a paper on:
IEC 61850 Communication / IEC 61131 Programmable Logic Control Application Integration Methods

Enjoy!

IEC 61850 Europe 2016 takes place 18-20 October 2016 in Amsterdam

The 3rd annual IEC 61850 Europe 2016 conference, exhibition and networking forum will draw together 150+ IEC 61850 experts and implementation leaders for 3 intensive days of discussions around multi-vendor multi-edition system architectures to support the smart grid. Placing Edition 2 at the heart of discussions, this year’s agenda provides a clear plan for optimising the system design, engineering, testing, operation and maintenance procedures of next generation systems.

“There has been tremendous progress in the take-up of IEC 61850 enabled systems in the last 3 years since the conference first launched” says Mandana White, Programme Director of IEC 61850 Europe 2016, organised by Phoenix Forums. “With utility commitment to IEC 61850 at an all-time high, IEC 61850 workforces expanding at a rapid rate, and the application of the standard going beyond the substation, the opportunities and challenges facing the IEC 61850 end-user community are now significant. And it is with these important shifts in mind that we have shaped this year’s agenda.”

Click HERE for details.

Exhibition in Paris: SG Paris 2014 - From Smart Grids to Smart Networks, June 11-13

You are invited to stop at booth i4 at the SG Paris 2014 - From Smart Grids to Smart Networks, and see IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104 and Gateways in action:

The Exhibition & Conference start from June 11 to 13 in La Défense (Paris) – daily from 8:30h – 19:00h).

In France, Smart Grid technologies have been rapidly developing over the course of the past few years, with high stakes surrounding the roll-out of smart meters, and notably ERDF's highly publicized meter, Linky, and GRDF's Gazpar.

The Smart Grids Paris trade show is now one of Europe's leading events in the Smart Grids field, counting 3000 attendees, 70 exhibitors and almost 150 speakers.

Beck IPC, EBDS and NettedAutomation invite you to visit us at the SG Paris 2014 at the booth of EBDS (European Business Development Services) i4 and see our standard-based solutions for smart grids:

• com.tom data manager with an integrated service router, switching functionality, various modems, and live data connection to the com.tom internet portal system.
• IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, IEC 60870-5-104, and IEC 62351 (security) are integrated to easily build gateways and manage your data.
• Everything you are looking for - integrated in a single device!
• Applications: Data Concentrator, System Monitoring, Asset Monitoring, Gateway, RTU, Interface to any process level devices, sensors and actuators, …
• Examples of applications:
• Power quality meter information and simple I/Os
• PV inverter monitoring and control

Access to the exhibition is free.

More about com.tom under www.com-tom.de
More about the fair under www.sgparis.fr

See you there.

IntelliSub Europe 2013 conference

The IntelliSub Europe 2013 conference about next-generation smart substations, takes place 26-28 November 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany

Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt City, Germany

Click HERE for details.

IEC 61850 is a core component that will be discussed throughout the conference.

Remote Service Forum und IEC 61850

Das 19. Remote Service Forum findet vom 6.-7. Juli 2011 bei der IHK Karlsruhe unter dem Titel “Von der Technologie zu neuen Dienstleistungen” statt. Neue Dienstleistungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien und intelligenten Energieversorgungs-Netze sind unumgänglich, um die Flut der Informationen zum Überwachen, Steuern und Regeln des Energieflusses zu beherrschen. Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze (Feldbusse) sind kaum als Basis geeignet, weil es zu viele gibt: mehrere hundert!

In der elektrischen Energieversorung haben sich die Normen IEC 60870-5-10x (Telecontrol), IEC 60870-6 TASE.2 (Inter-control center communication), IEC 61850 (substation automation and protection, DER, Hydro power plant monitoring and control), IEC 61400-25 (monitoring and control of wind turbines), und IEC 61131-3 (open PLC programming language) durchgesetzt.

Herr Dipl.-Ing. Karlheinz Schwarz (SCC) wird am 7.Juli 2011 einen Vortrag unter dem Titel “Genormter Remote-Zugriff auf Informationen elektrotechnischer Erzeugungs-und Verteilungsanlagen mit IEC 61850” halten.

NettedAutomation GmbH wird in der begleitenden Ausstellung über die neuesten Trends bei der Realisierung von IEC 61850 basierten Komponenten berichten und Realisierungsmöglichkeiten für embedded controller und vieles mehr vorstellen.

HIER klicken, um das Programm und die Anmeldeinformationen herunterzuladen.

IEC 61850 at Smart Grid Symposium and Exhibition

NettedAutomation GmbH (Karlsruhe/Germany) will present the latest developments in products for IEC 61850 during the

Symposium and Exhibition - Power Distribution Systems of the Future:
Novel solutions of the information and communication technology
as the backbone of Smart Distribution

12.-13. April 2011

darmstadtium
Wissenschafts- und Kongresszentrum
Schlossgraben 1
64283 Darmstadt
Germany

organized by
HEAG Südhessische Energie AG
NTB Technoservice
VDE

Click HERE for information on the event and registration:

What NettedAutomation GmbH will present at both 12:

• Lite Stack implementation for IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25
• IEC61850@CHIP - THE most efficient way to let devices speak IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25
• IEC61850 DLL - THE most efficient way to let PCs speak IEC 61850-25
• SCL Configuration Tool (System Configuration Language)
• Ready to GO! ruggedized devices like Gateways, RTUs, generic controller [programmable in IEC 61131-3 (CoDeSys and ISaGRAF) and C/C++], ...
• Experience and international trends in IEC 61850
• Training material

Objectives of the event:

• Exchange of experience between the European and German lighthouse projects.
• Information of the public, of vendors, grid operators and other stakeholders of the energy market, of universities and research institutes about the running lighthouse projects
• Discussion of the broad dissemination of the project results and how to overcome the existing barriers.

IEC Standards like IEC 61850 play a key role in the future Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Systems. Several presentations and a workshop deal with THE Global accepted and used standard IEC 61850 in the context of Distribution Systems.

IEC 61850 at the Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

"The first Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will be held January 19‐21, 2010 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. The Conference will be a forum for the participants to discuss the state‐of‐the‐art innovations in smart grid technologies. The Conference will feature special sessions and tutorials by international experts on smart grid applications."

Paper presentation at the conference:

"Towards the Energy Web via Standards-enabled Smart Grid"

Authors:
Valeriy Vyatkin, Senior Member, IEEE,
Gulnara Zhabelova, non-member,
Neil Higgins, Member, IEEE,
Mihaela Ulieru, Senior Member, IEEE
Karlheinz Schwarz, Member, IEEE and
Nirmal-Kumar C Nair, Member, IEEE

Abstract -- In this paper we propose an information and control architecture for Smart Grid based on the combination of upcoming industrial standards and intelligent control methods. We make the case that an incremental approach is required for the transition to the Smart Grid and propose a way of doing that through bringing intelligence down to the level of substation automation devices. The architecture employs two strong international standards, IEC 61850 and IEC 61499, to enrich the applications that can be created using interoperable Smart Grid devices. Interoperability and open configurability - key enablers for efficient application of the revolutionary EnergyWeb ideas – are evident in this architecture.
The utility network is modelled as IEC 61850-compliant logical nodes, embedded in an IEC 61499 distributed automation framework. The system is simulated in an IEC 61499 execution environment combined with Matlab, and is proven to achieve simple fault location and power restoration goals through collaborative behaviour.

Click HERE for the conference website.

Remote 2009 Conference & Expo, October 29-30, 2009 - San Antonio (TX)

The Remote 2009 Conference and Expo will focus on the leading advancements for the monitoring and management of distributed equipment and facilities, remote assets, automated process & system controls and device networks. Large-scale users and industry experts will speak on SCADA, remote networking technology, security (cyber and physical), control, automation, onsite and back-up power, M2M, emerging wireless technology, telemetry and condition monitoring.

IEC 61850 will be discussed in a paper from Prosoft Technology, Inc. Click HERE for the conference program.

There will also be a 2 day workshop on IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, DNP3 ... crucial building blocks also for smart grids. Click HERE for the program of the workshop.

ABB and others push IEC 61850 all over

According to a news letter dated 2009-05-04 "ABB has introduced and exploited the benefits of IEC 61850 for customers in 55 countries and supplied hundreds of systems and thousands of products for new substation installations, as well as retrofit and migration projects. ... ABB played a key role in developing and verifying this global standard, and actually commissioned the world’s first IEC 61850 multi-vendor project in 2004 at the 380 kilovolt (kV) Laufenburg substation in Switzerland – one of the largest and most important substations in Europe."

Click HERE for the ABB news report.

All big vendors like ABB, AREVA, GE, SEL, Siemens, and several others, utilities and several independent consultants have heavily contributed to the standard - and are still contributing!

During today's one-day seminar on IEC 61850 organized by Asia iKnowledge Sdn. Bhd. here in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) it was interesting to see the huge interest of power, gas and oil utilities in the new standard! It was clearly reported and confirmed by key people that attended that the education of "smart" engineers in the new standards is one of the crucial pre-requisite for smarter grids!

Click HERE [pdf, 600 KB] for today's program and the program of the conference tomorrow and Thursday.

Training Opportunities 2009

NettedAutomation GmbH holds three public seminars/trainings in 2009:

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): 26-27 May 2009
Frankfurt (Germany):      20-23 October 2009
San Antonio, TX (USA):   29-30 October 2009

1. Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
A two day International Conference (27-28 May 2009) and a one day Pre-Conference Seminar (26 May 2009) will be held at PWTC in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

The program and registration form [pdf, 530 KB] can be downloaded HERE

2. Frankfurt (Germany)
The third four (three) day Comprehensive & Independent Hands-on Training by NettedAutomation and STRI will be held in Frankfurt (Germany) on 20-23 October 2009

The program and registration form [pdf, 500 KB] can be downloaded HERE

3. San Antonio, TX (USA)
Two-Day Special Course on IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, and DNP3 will be held at the Remote 2009 Conference and Expo in San Antonio, TX (USA) on 29-30 October 2009

The program and registration form can be accessed HERE

This event will educate you in the latest development of the Backbone for the "Smart Grid": The advanced Automation of the power generation, transmission and distribution systems and process Automation systems with standard compliant devices and systems.

These events make you, the experts - the most crucial asset! - smarter.

Two day seminar on IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, DNP3; October 29-30, San Antonio (TX)

A Two-Day Special Course on IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, DNP3 will be held during the "Remote 2009 Conference and Expo", October 29th & 30th, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas (USA).

The reality of the world-wide retiring process of the most valuable assets (the senior engineers in the utilities) the aging systems, the companies tightening budgets and lowering sales expectations could bring some great opportunities for everyone involved in information management of local and remote devices and processes. Less people means less proprietary solutions could be supported. This is the time for a single, internationally standardized and accepted solution: IEC 61850.

In this comprehensive 2-day workshop students learn the fundamental concepts and vision of the IEC 61850 standard series. Students compare traditional solutions like DNP3 and the new OPC UA to IEC 61850 and discuss the strength each method offers. All the IEC 61850 standards, their extensions, and many application domains are briefly discussed and the class delves into IEC 61850 real-time and client/server solutions.

Click HERE for full details and registration information.

Full day seminar and two day Conference on IEC 61850 in Kuala Lumpur, May 26-28, 2009

International experts will present and discuss the latest development in the domain of IEC 61850 for power systems ... especially for substation protection and automation.

A full day pre-conference workshop on IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5, DNP3, CIM, Security, Decentralized Energy, Smart Grids, ... will take place on May 26.

The event will take place in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on May 26-28, 2009.

Program and registration information [pdf, 530 KB]