Managing Grid Assets in the Digital Substation

So how can you control the grid in a way that improves reliability and keeps the cost of power low? With limited capital budgets, the

utilities must make choices related to long-term expenditures.

These choices include

 Considering all relevant factors, determining which projects minimize risk

 Determining which www.cniacs.com aging equipment assets can more cost-effectively reduce risk

 determining whether additional capital expenditures can be justified to regulators or other stakeholders.

Regulators or other stakeholders

 Determine the most efficient way to deploy resources during an outage

Process bus digital communication standards support interoperability between IEDs from different vendors and “digitize” modern substations.

When process bus devices are properly configured according to the IEC 61850 standard, they provide fast, reliable and secure communications that

to support device protection, remote monitoring and remote control. Process buses can also provide control centers with situational awareness based on accurate and timely measurement data from all corners of the grid.

control center situational awareness based on accurate and timely measurement data from all corners of the grid. By connecting the data to the APM application, the data enables coordination between transmission sections and between transmission and distribution operators.