Training offers by FMTP and NettedAutomation in fall 2016

Upcoming Open Seminars in English for SMART GRID, IEC 61850, PAC, Protection
Automation Control:

Stockholm, SE Sept 19-22 2016
Karlsruhe, DE Oct 10-13 2016

Click HERE for more details and registration information.

Three New CDVs of IEC 61850 Edition 2 Amendments published

IEC TC 57 just published three new CDVs for Edition 2 documents:

57/1707/CDV
IEC 61850-7-2 A1 Ed.2: Amendment 1 to IEC 61850-7-2 Ed.2: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation - Part 7-2: Basic information and communication structure - Abstract communication service interface (ACSI)
The Amendment solves issues that have been reported and discussed in recent years. Some 50 of them are documented in the Tissue Database for part 7-2.

57/1708/CDV
IEC 61850-7-3 A1 Ed.2: Amendment 1 to IEC 61850-7-3 Ed.2: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation - Part 7-3: Basic communication structure - Common data classes
The Amendment solves issues that have been reported and discussed in recent years. Some 45 of them are documented in the Tissue Database for part 7-3.

57/1709/CDV
IEC 61850-9-2 A1 Ed.2: Amendment 1 to IEC 61850-9-2 Ed.2: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation - Part 9-2: Specific communication service mapping (SCSM) - Sampled values over ISO/IEC 8802-3
The Amendment solves issues that have been reported and discussed in recent years.

All three documents can be accessed publicly.

Please take some time to review both documents.
The documents should be available online for reading and for comments.
Check HERE for the access and for providing comments.

New Seminar "Protection and Control with IEC 61850" in Stockholm

FMTP is pleased to announce their newly designed Seminar "Protection and Control with IEC 61850" in cooperation between FMTP Power,  NettedAutomation and KTH, conducted by the well know experts: Mr Andrea Bonetti, Mr Karlheinz Schwarz and Prof. Lars Nordström.

We have added one extra day, with group practical exercises and guest speakers from a well-known Power utility and OPAL RT real time testing of power systems for IEC 61850 environment.

Stockholm, Sweden –  at KTH (Royal Technical Institute)

Sept. 19-23, 2016

Click HERE for the program and registration

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.

1,500 IEC 61850 Tissues posted since 2004

One of the crucial tools to help improving the quality of the Standard Series IEC 61850 is the so-called Tissue Database (Technical Issues):

tissues.iec61850.com

Currently 1,500 Tissues have been posted, discussed, answered, solved, ...

The Tissue #1,500 has been posted by TÜV SÜD on June 06, 2016.

The Tissue Database is open for every expert in the domain of IEC 61850. To post a tissue you need to register.

CDV of IEC 61850-6 Amendment 1 and IEC 62351-9 available for comments

IEC TC 57 has published the following documents for review:

57/1697/CDV
IEC 61850-6 A1: Amendment 1 to IEC 61850-6 Ed.2:Communication networks and systems for power utility automation -
Part 6: Configuration description language for communication in electrical substations related to IEDs

The Amendment incorporates 60 Tissues - listed in the CDV document. You can find easily what has been revised.

57/1699/CDV
IEC 62351-9: Power systems management and associated information exchange - Data and communications security -
Part 9: Cyber security key management for power system equipment

Please take some time to review both documents.
The documents should be available online for reading and for comments.
Check HERE for the access and for providing comments.

Many Open Positions in the U.S. linked to IEC 61850

An indication that IEC 61850 is used more often in the U.S. can be found when you search for an position with Simplyhired:

http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=IEC+61850&l=

Today the search engine found 59 links ... Wow.

Several links are shown for France and Germany:

http://www.simplyhired.fr/search?q=IEC+61850
http://www.simplyhired.de/search?q=IEC+61850

Good luck.

GridEx Tool Launched to Support Smart Grid IEC 61850 Networks

How many times have you struggled with the stream of IEC 61850 GOOSE and Sampled Value messages and SCL configuration files? Is there any help to get your hands on these streams?

Yes, there is help: GridEx®

GridEx® sets you in control of your IEC 61850 networks. Designed to support you when performing commissioning, troubleshooting and maintenance.

GridEx® is a digital multimeter and analyzer for Smart Grid applications; it bridges the gap between the traditional power technology and the digital communication. Network digital data is translated into upfront and intuitive information to support decisions for increased reliability and improved system utilization.

Entirely embedded stand-alone solution for secure connection to your IEC 61850 network, easy to use, versatile connections, instant start-up, error and inconsistencies detection, warning explanation, proactive analysis.

The evolutionary tool in IEC 61850 testing. Click HERE for more details. 

For any question please contact our technical manager Mr Andrea Bonetti at gridex@fmtppower.com

In short terms:

• GridEx®is a Smart Grid Multimeter
• GridEx®is Bridging the gap between IEC 61850 digital communication and Power system applications: Complex data shown in understandable information
• GridEx®is not a relay test set
• GridEx®has Secure connection in the station
• GridEx®shows live measurements with it’s versatile connections (ETH/FO)

An animated video is worth more than 1000 words: https://youtu.be/BMfbGZThAk4

IEC is about to prepare the "Use of IEC 61850 for electrical energy storage systems"

IEC TC 57 has just sent a 75+ pages draft document for comments by the national committees:

Draft IEC TR 61850-90-9 – Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 90-9: Use of IEC 61850 for electrical energy storage systems

See: 57/1715/DC

The document is a very comprehensive document that provides a list of use-cases and solutions on how to use and extend the IEC 61850 models for electrical energy storage systems.

The



It is recommended for the various stakeholders to get more deeply involved into the further steps to get a standard information model for electrical storage systems!!

Sample use-case:



This document fits well into the set of drafts that are needed for power distribution systems.

More to come!

HMS exhibits IEC 60870-5-104 and IEC 61850 Anybus SG Gateways at Hannover Fair and SPS IPC Drives

Anybus SG-gateways - solving Smart Grid communication challenges!
The Anybus® SG-gateway™ family is designed to specifically target Demand Response (networking of industrial electric loads) and Virtual Power Plants (networking of energy resources like biogas plants or combined heat and power units) applications.

The gateways will be shown in action at the following two events in 2016:

Hannover Messe
Hannover, Deutschland
25. - 29. April 2016
Halle 8, Stand D11

SPS IPC Drives
Nürnberg, Deutschland
22. - 24. November 2016
Halle 2, Stand 2-438

Protocols supported so far:
IEC61850 client/server, IEC60870-5-104 client/server, Modbus RTU master/ slave, Modbus TCP client/server, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET and PROFIBUS.

Click HERE for more information about the Anybus SG Gateways.

The Complete Content of the IEC 61850 News Blog is now Available as Single PDF Document

For those readers of this IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5/6, DNP3, … news blog that want to get the complete content as a single pdf document, it is just a click away … it contains 1120+ posts from 2008 until 2016-04-09. Once you have downloaded the file you can easily browse the content … search … mark … copy … You will find useful information about the standards, vendors like ABB, HMS, Siemens, or utilities …

Click HERE to download all posts of the IEC 61850 blog in a single pdf [14 MB, 823 pages DIN A4]

Enjoy!

In case you have a question, drop us an EMAIL.

Check the Latest in IEC 61850 Testing Tools during the IEC IEEE PES T&D in Dallas (TX)

Mingle at the GridEx® Smart Grid Product Release- IEEE T&D 2016

FMTP (Sweden) welcomes YOU to meet with their experts in the casual atmosphere of the Rustic (just a few miles away from IEEE PES T&D in Huston (TX)) for food, drinks and the reveal of FMTP Power latest product GridEx® on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at 8:00 p.m.

GridEx®, a digital multimeter for Smart Grids, bridges the gap between traditional power technology and new digital communication (models, GOOSE, Sampled Values, SCL, ...). Complex data is translated into easily understandable information to support decisions for increased reliability and improved system utilization.

Click HERE to register for the product presentation of GridEx®.

New Draft IEC TR 61850-7-500 Just Published - Typical Use Cases

IEC TC 57 has just published a very interesting document (75+ page Draft Report) - 57/1701/DC:
IEC TR 61850-7-500 – Use of logical nodes for modelling applications and related concepts and guidelines for substations

The draft provides examples and hints on how to use IEC 61850 for substation automation, protection and SCADA. Sample excerpt of content:

This document is crucial to understand use cases of the standard for substation applications.
Note that the examples given are showing just some possible applications. In practice there will be other use cases - depending on the philosophy of a specific utility. The use cases are not standardized!
In case a utility is looking for exchangeability of IEDs from different vendors, it has to specify the SCD file to a very high degree!
Recently I had a meeting with experts from a big transmission utility: They have reached a level of system specification in order to allow interoperability AND exchangeability of IEDs from multiple vendors! To get there: You need to request something more than just "IEC 61850".

Government R&D Funding for German "Energiewende": 400 Million Euro until 2025

The German government has decided recently to fund four (4) huge R&D Energiewende-Projects!
The government published a news report describing the objectives of the Kopernikus projects.
More than 1000 organizations came up with 41 project proposals - four (4) proposals have been awarded to get the funding!

1. Neue Netzstrukturen (new network structures) - Project name: ENSURE.
   Leading organization: KIT (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
   Other main organizations: RWTH Aachen, E.ON, Tennet, Siemens and ABB
   Number of partners: 21
2. Speicherung von Überschussstrom (power storage) - Project name: Power-to-X
   Leading organization: RWTH Aachen
   Other main organization: Forschungszentrum Jülich und die DECHEMA
   Number of partners:62
3. Industrieprozesse (industrial processes): - Project name: SynErgie
   Leading organization: Technischen Universität Darmstadt
   Other main organizations: Universität Stuttgart
   Number of partners: 83
4. Systemintegration (system integration) - Project name: ENavi
   Leading organization: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam
   Other main organizations:
   Number of partners: 64

The projects are organized into three (3) phases and run until 2025.
Funding for the first phase (2016-2018) = 120 Million Euro.
Funding for the phase 2 and 3 (2019-2015) = 280 Million Euro.

Click HERE for the government press release [de].
Click HERE for the Kopernikus projects [de].

Again On Security - A Summary for Managers

Always everything has been said on industrial control system (ICS) security - but still a lot of managers have not paid enough attention to it.
Are you a manager responsible for ICS security? You should read the one page well written memo. If you are not a manager: forward the link to your management.
Click HERE for the one page well written memo.

Two of the most crucial sentences in the memo are:

"... everyone knows there is a problem - but for the moment it is largely a potential problem."

" ... warns, "My biggest fear right now is that someone will put a critical infrastructure on
lockdown with ransomware. ..."

The next problem may be just round the corner ... somebody saying: "Stehen bleiben und Geld her!" (Stand and deliver!).

Just Published: CDV IEC 62351-7 -- Network and System Management (NSM) Data Object Models

IEC TC 57 has just published the first CDV of
IEC 62351-7 comprising 208 pages:
Power systems management and associated information exchange - Data and communications security - Part 7: Network and system management (NSM) data object models
The ballot closes 2016-06-17
This draft STANDARD will (when released) supersede the Technical Specification "IEC TS 62351-7:2010".

The NSM objects will provide monitoring data for TC57 protocols used for power systems
(IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104) and device specific environmental and security status. Also
IEEE 1815 DNP3 is included in the list of monitored protocols. The NSM data objects use the
naming conventions developed for IEC 61850, expanded to address NSM issues. For sake of
generality these data objects, and the data types of which they are comprised, are defined as
abstract models of data objects.
In order to allow the integration of the monitoring of power system devices within the NSM
environment in this standard a mapping of objects towards the SNMP protocol is provided.

110 pages contain the SNMP MIB Mapping.
Excerpt of some objects related to MMS:

Please take some time to comment.
The document should be available online for comments by end of this week or so.
Check HERE.

IEC 61850 for CLS -- Seems to be the natural solution as discussed in Germany

Controllable Local Systems (CLS) is understood by many experts as a useful tool to communicate with loads and generators. The roll-out of smart meters seems to be blocked (at least in Germany to some extent) by the missing decision: Which information and information exchange standard should be used?
The latest issue of the famous VDI-Nachrichten reported last week Friday that there is an immediate need to come to a decision in Germany. Professor Hilscher (Hochschule Ulm) is suggesting to apply IEC 61850.
Click HERE for the report (Digitale Energiewende braucht Standards) [de].