Station integration for reduced costs and improved operational efficiency

Abstract

Multi-vender protection and control integration has been performed in demonstration projects to show protocol capabilities, but rarely to provide a comprehensive station protection and control system. A new station, feeding power to lower Manhattan, provided an opportunity to use modern communications to reduce costs while providing advanced capabilities. This ConEd substation project applied the IEC 61850 protocol to provide a high reliability peer-to-peer network across fiber optic.