Relay Testing in the Digital Substation

Eugenio Carvalheira, OMICRON electronicsCover Story, Fall 2023 Cover Story

IEC 61850-based protection, automation, and control (PAC) brings a lot of advantages. Therefore, the adoption of the standard has been consistently increasing. IEC 61850 defines much more than just protocols; it defines a data model to represent information in the power grid. It also defines services for communicating data and a system configuration language (SCL) that allows configuration data to …