Emerging Trends in Digital Substations

With technology at the forefront of our society, continuous improvements are being made to streamline and modernize the electrical grid from generating facilities to interconnecting substations. As technology continues to improve and become more widely accessible and available, staying up-to-date with the latest developments, practices, and standards is critical. We review the latest Digital Substation trends, including: IEC61850 enhanced protection schemes, instrument transformers on the IEC61850 process bus and high reliability networks with parallel redundancy protocol.