IEC 61850 Principles and Applications to Electric Power Systems

This book offers a compact guide to IEC61850 systems, including wide-area implementation, as it has been applied to real substations worldwide. It utilises technical brochures and papers based on existing practice of IEC61850 systems that give stakeholders from different disciplines an understanding of systems in use, their features, how they are applied and approach for implementation.

The book offers a holistic practical view considering all relevant interfaces and possibilities. It includes the different applications, practical implementation considerations and choices made for IEC61850 PACS (Protection Automation & Control System) designs. Power system engineers, planners, technicians and researchers will find the book useful for exploring, developing and delivering these systems.

Peter Bishop is presently Principal Protection & Automation Engineer with Transpower NZ Ltd, the transmission utility in New Zealand. He holds an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree from the University of Canterbury (NZ) and is a Chartered Professional Engineer. Peter has over twenty-five years’ experience in power system protection engineering support and management for a transmission utility and protection manufacturer. This experience has included protection operation and application analysis, setting studies, simulation and testing, training, investigations, and project support. He was a member of a cross functional team which travelled internationally gathering experience and information on substation automation for future application for Transpower. In recent years at Transpower he has managed the protection technical support response for power system faults, equipment failures and outages. Peter is convenor of CIGRE Australia B5 mirror panel and has been a co special reporter at the 2017 SC B5 colloquium.

Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. He has held several professional and research positions in India, USA and New Zealand (NZ). Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests in voltage collapse, resilience, cyber-physical security and special protection schemes. He has contributed to over 270 conference and journal papers, two books and several book chapters. He has been serving as an Executive of CIGRE New Zealand National Committee since 2008, and is currently also the Technical Chair and Event Manager. For CIGRE B5, he is a technical advisor for New Network Requirements, and has been involved in 4 working groups and 2 task forces, along with several papers. He received recognition as CIGRE Distinguished Member in 2018.