First Meralco IEC 61850 Smart Substation Challenges and Learnings
With over 100 years of history, Manila Electric Company (Meralco) plays an instrumental key role in powering the economic development in the Phihppines.As the electric power transmission and distribution network is a strategic infrastructure that enables every aspect of modern society,moving toward Smart Grid to achieve greater availability and reliability of high quality power supply and service is necessary.While the introduction of renewable energy sources and smart meters are part of the Smart Grid initiatives that address the source and load ends of the grid, substations in the transmission and distribution network remains the key building blocks of the power grid.As technology is geared towards smart electric systems, the modernization of substations plays a very important role in incorporating solutions to prepare the infrastructure and is certainly the first important step in achieving a Smarter Grid.Meralcos renewed focus on strengthening the core distribution utility business because of customers growing requirements and continuing need for reliable service is driving the company to adapt a cost-effective solution for a Smart Substation fully compliant with IEC 61850 standards.The adoption of the IEC 61850 standard for substations and cognizant of new technology developments in the substations has driven MERALCO to adapt the IEC 61850 standard both for new substations and for existing substations through migration strategies.With the implementation of a pilot Smart Substation compliant to the IEC 61850 standard, MERALCO aims to prove and capitalize on the benefits it would bring in terms of efficiency,cost, operation & maintenance expenditures reduction, reliability and dependability.Second, a standards based network enables a more scalable, replicable solution designed for high availability,integrated security management and network scalability.To obtain a complete advantages of the standard, it is important to consider all the major issues related to practical implementation.This paper discusses some of the challenges and the key lessons learned Meralco experienced for implementing new communication architecture, such as process bus and station bus.Further, the overall substation functional issues, and planning issues are also explained.Some possible internal Meralco solutions to several major implementation issues are also discussed.
GOOSE Intelligent Electronic Devices Manufacturing Message Specification Process Bus Merging Unit Protection and Control Smart Grid Substation Station Bus
V.V.Nicolas A.A.Alagao L.J.C.Maagma R.A.Cullano A.M.Abuel Jr.
SCADA, Meralco, Philippines Meralco, Philippines
国际会议
南京
英文
187-197
2015-09-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）