Substation Architecture Protection 2014

Description:

In the energy industry, there are numerous types of cables in use for a wide variety of applications, from transporting high-voltage current for miles to providing power and data connectivity within and among substations and to and from control centers. For the purposes of this article, we will be looking at the communications cables that are the veins and arteries of the substation communications architecture. The aim is to achieve adequate substation architecture protection.

In general, the International Electrotechnical Commission’s IEC 61850: “Power Utility Automation” is the global standard for the design of electrical substation automation, and it specifies internet protocols (TCP/IP networks) and high-speed Ethernet-based substation LANs (local area networks) as the transport vehicles.