The Road to Successful IEC 61850 Substation Protection, Automation and Control System (SPACS) Implementation: Experience from Malaysia
With IEC 61850 being widely implemented across the globe, there is a need for users, such as power utility companies to define their own requirements based on the standard to ensure multi-vendor interoperability is achieved when deployed. For Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), the initiative of IEC 61850 started in 2004 where a 20-year Technology Road Map (TRM) was defined and IEC 61850 was identified as one of the key enabler technology in the road map. Subsequently, a joint research program between Transmission Division and TNB Research was proposed in 2007 to conduct in-depth studies on IEC 61850. The main deliverable of this research program is a laboratory, which is called TNB IEC 61850 System Verification and Simulation (SVS) laboratory and it was successfully commissioned in March 2010.Upon its completion, SVS Laboratory has been actively utilized for IEC 61850 initiatives and activities in TNB. Documents such as functional specifications and IEC 61850 device testing procedure were produced by further studying actual IEC 61850 implementations in laboratory environment. Two major initiatives were then initiated, which are: 1. TNB’s first multi-vendor IEC 61850 pilot project at Kajang Estate (KEST) 132/33kV GIS substation 2. Product Acceptance Process for IEC 61850 Devices in TNB The construction of the multi-vendor IEC 61850 substation in TNB is championed by Transmission Division, and the implementation is at Station Bus level. The project was awarded to a local system integrator in 2012 and is scheduled to be completed in May 2015. The project also aims to design the IEC 61850 communication using top-down engineering approach by utilizing third party system configuration tool to integrate the respective multi-vendor devices. The second initiative was started in September 2012 to support the substation pilot project by preliminarily verifying the IEC 61850 capabilities of the intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) against TNB requirements and validating the interoperability of the IEDs using IEC 61850 communication services. As of January 2015, a total of 15 IED models from 4 different vendors were successfully tested and accepted in TNB. To ensure that the above initiatives are successfully driven by internal expertise, TNB has also created specialist and technical expert positions, which will be the custodian for IEC 61850 related technologies under the TNB Specialist Career Path (SCP). A new unit under Transmission Division, which is called Product Acceptance and Innovation (PAI), was also created mainly to facilitate the product acceptance process of IEC 61850 compliant devices which is mentioned above. As a summary, IEC 61850 has induced new technology initiatives in TNB where systematic implementation approaches are taken. TNB is also focusing to ensure in-house personnel knowledge development, operational competency, and competency sustenance on the IEC 61850 related technologies.
IEC 61850 Interoperability Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) Multi-vendor Pilot Project
M. I. Ridwan A. Musa
TNB Research Sdn Bhd Tenaga Nasional Berhad Malaysia
国际会议
国际大电网会议组织保护与自动化专业委员会年度会议暨学术研讨会
南京
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2015-09-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）