IEEE PES PSCC Committee’s Protocols and Communication Architecture Subcommittee (P0) met in January 2021 where the subcommittee approved the formation of the P21 study group to investigate whether a standard document should be created to address system architectures supporting the virtualization of substation protection and control applications. This work complements work already underway in the IEEE PES Power System Relaying & Control (PSRCC) Committee WG H45 (Chair Ratan Das) that is developing PC37.300 that addresses centralized protection and control applications. The PC37.300 work is based upon a previously published paper that won the 2017 PES Prize Paper Award (presentation here, original IEEE PES PSRCC K15 report here, and prize paper here). EPRI Project 3002017165 has been underway since around August 2019 with several utilities and industry stakeholders looking at a “common substation platform” and defining the application use cases (aligning well with PC37.300 work) and their requirements for the technology supporting the common substation platform.
This topic is on the leading edge for protection and control applications, but even more so on the technologies to support those emerging application requirements. Some relevant IEEE published work includes what is listed below.
- 14PESGM1584, Virtualization Technologies in SCADA/EMS/DMS/OMS
IEEE-PES Technical Report: August 2014
Author: Power System Operations
The utility information systems of today, such as SCADA, SCADA/EMS, SCADA/DMS, and SAS, are predicated on the same networking concepts and deploy the same types of servers and workstations as the information systems from any other industry. This induces us to ask whether the current IT paradigms such as server virtualization and cloud computing can be used in power system control center environments. If yes, the next question is to what extent such technologies have already been deployed in control centers and with what results and benefits. Accordingly, the objectives of the Modern Information Technologies in the Computerized Operation of Power Systems panel are to shed light on these topics and to identify other platform trends that might be worth pursuing. The invited panelists will address topics: implementation of virtualization technologies in SCADA/EMS/DMS systems; potential for using cloud computing techniques in a utility information system. - 14PESGM1586, Obsolescence in Utility Information Systems. What It Is and How the IT Paradigms of Today Can Prevent It
IEEE-PES Technical Report: August 2014
Author: Power System OperationsThe utility information systems of today, such as SCADA, SCADA/EMS, SCADA/DMS and SAS, are predicated on the same networking concepts and deploy the same types of servers and workstations as the information systems from any other industry. This induces us to ask whether the current IT paradigms such as server virtualization and cloud computing can be used in power system control center environments. If yes, the next question is to what extent such technologies have already been deployed in control centers and with what results and benefits. Accordingly, the objectives of the Modern Information Technologies in the Computerized Operation of Power Systems panel are to shade light on these topics and to identify other platform trends that might be worth pursuing. The invited panelists will address topics: implementation of virtualization technologies in SCADA/EMS/DMS systems; potential for using cloud computing techniques in a utility information system.
- The Substation of the Future: Moving Toward a Digital Solution IEEE Power & Energy Magazine: July/August 2019 Authors: Richard Hunt, Byron Flynn, and Terry Smith
- Smart and Green Substation: Shaping the Electric Power Grid of Korea IEEE Power & Energy Magazine: July/August 2019 Authors: Heejin Kim, Jae-Kyeong Kim, Jiyoung Song, Jaegul Lee, Kisun Han, Jeonghoon Shin, Taekyun Kim, and Kyeon Hur
This topic is one being worked on by a variety of different groups both inside and outside of IEEE PES.
If you are really interested in virtualization of substation applications check out this committee for even more info:
- IEEE PES Power System Communications and Cybersecurity (PSCC) Committee Protocols and Communication Architecture Subcommittee (P0)
- IEEE PES Power System Relaying & Control (PSRCC) Committee WG H45
To learn more & get involved, please check out the IEEE PES Power System Communications and Cybersecurity (PSCC) Committee website.
- “Performance Analysis and Threshold Quantization of Transformer Differential Protection Under Sampled Value Packets Loss/Delay”
Access IEEE, vol. 7, pp. 55698-55706, 2019, Ruiwen He, Hao Peng, Qingyun Jiang, Lei Zhou, Jianxin Zhu - “Next Generation of Power System Protection Automation—Virtualization of Protection Systems”
IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 2002-2010, Aug. 2018, R. Wojtowicz, Ryszard Kowalik, Desire D. Rasolomampionona. - “Advancements in centralized protection and control within a substation”
IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1945-1952, Aug. 2016, S. Brahma. - “The role of virtualization in a smart-grid enabled substation automation system”
Proc. Quadnet Comput. Syst. Protection Autom. Control World Africa Conf., 2015, S. Dayabhai and P. Diamandis. - “Cloud IEC 61850: DDS Performance in Virtualized Environment with OpenDDS”
- “Cloud IEC 61850 A Case Study of a Software Defined Protection, Automation & Control System”
- “Cloud IEC 61850”
Proceedings of the. PAC World Conference, June 2013, R. D. F. Ferreira et al. - “Cloud IEC 61850: Architecture and Integration of Electrical Automation Systems”
2014, T. B. Lo, M. F. Mendes, H. A. L. Samaniego and R. S. de Oliveira.