IEC 61850 Implementation Support
EnerNex Corporation has the largest concentration of IEC 61850 experts in the industry, including four former heads of IEC 61850 software development teams and the original project manager. Our team helped create the standard and continue to participate in its evolution and application.
IEC 61850 presents an attractive standardization scheme for electric power utilities because it defines a single automation technology for the entire substation and has the potential to cut configuration and upgrade costs across the life cycle of the substation by 75% or more. It is an international standard that is accepted and implemented worldwide by all major vendors of control, protection and monitoring equipment. Utilities implementing the IEC 61850 standard are now laying the groundwork for an enterpriselevel common communication infrastructure for electric power utilities. IEC 61850 has the potential to transform the substation like no other communications standard, through “plug and play” automatic configuration, elimination of dedicated protection wiring and the creation of smart instrumentation transformers. It specifies the requirements, engineering processes, supporting tools, system life-cycle, conformance testing and the quality assurance requirements and maintenance for the entire substation automation system.
Services for Utilities- Architecture and requirements definition
- Feature set determination and guidance
- Advanced protection scheme design
- IED selection and specification
- Data model development
- Multi-vendor interoperability testing
- Pre-pilot site testing
- IEC 61850 product acceptance testing
- IEC 61850 integration and system level testing
- Enterprise integration
- Commission testing
- Training
- IEC 61850 implementation planning and software architecture
- IEC 61850 embedded software development
- Preparation for certification testing - pre-testing
- Training
- IEC Technical Committee 57 Working Groups
- Working Group 3: Telecontrol
- Working Group 10: Substations (IEC 61850 core)
- Working Group 13: Control Center
- Working Group 14: Distribution
- Working Group 15: Security
- Working Group 17: Distributed Generation
- Working Group 19: Harmonization
- TC 88 IEC 61400 Part 25 Working Group on Wind Power Plant Communications
- UCA International Users Group
