Cost-Benefit Analysis & Testing - Danovo Energy Solutions

Digital Substations Cost-Benefit Analysis, Specification, & Testing

IEC 61850 is the platform for digital substations. Danovo Energy Solutions provides client-specific services for digital substations and the application of IEC 61850, including Strategy Development and Roadmaps, Implementation Support, and Knowledge Transfer and Testing. The team of experts from Danovo Energy Solutions has participated in the development of the IEC 61850 protocol since its inception in 1995 and understands how to best leverage IEC 61850 technology in order to realize the maximum benefit. Danovo Energy Solutions has worked with many utilities to quantify the cost-benefit analysis of implementing IEC 61850. The breadth of our experience includes cost-benefit analysis, optimizing substation refurbishments, encompassing engineering processes, tools, application standardization, and advanced system engineering testing to ensure maximum reliability and IEC 61850 compliance.

Leveraging IEC 61850 for Optimum Substation Reliability

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Service Offerings

IEC 61850 Strategy Development

Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, and Business Case
Technology Evaluation and Process Bus Application Impact Study
Cross-Dep't Involvement: Deployment and Acceptance

Protection & Control, Asset Management, Operations, Planning, IT/Communication, Cyber-Security
Cost-Benefit Analysis

IEC 61850 Implementation Support

System Design & Architecture
RFP, Specifications, Vendor Evaluation, Project Support, and Processes

Application Standardization

IEC 61850 Knowledge Transfer

On-site Training on the Basics, the Tools, Applications, GOOSE Messaging, Process Bus, and Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) Mapping
Communication, Network Design, and Security

How to Build the Business Case
Testing
Hands-on Training on Selected Equipment

IEC 61850 Testing

Single-Device Tests, Performance, Compliance, Tools, Calibration (PMU 90-2)

System Design Tests: IEC 61850-based Protection System using the Danovo Energy Solutions RTDS Lab

Long-Term Strategy

In order to optimize long-term return on investment for IEC 61850 integration programs, consider these elements:

Technical roadmap to assist with vendor independent products/technologies, new regulations, paradigm shifts, and industry trends
Cross-departmental involvement to improve deployment and acceptance
Business case development to obtain financial and managerial support
Implementation support for RFP/RFQ/RFI documents, evaluation, and project support

Automated configuration of networked devices from multiple vendors based on IEC 61850-6 substation configuration language (SCL) is just emerging. As the industry absorbs these developments, the standards-writing teams continue with new features and services including objects for new applications, such as hydropower plants, distributed energy resources (DER), and new communications applications reaching outside the substation to control centers and to other substations for protection applications.

Danovo Energy engineers are experienced in mapping data and information needs to unified substation integration architectures, including add-on systems and support of legacy systems.

IEC 61850-enabled secure substation architecture showing process and station buses, protection and control devices, and secure connectivity to control centers.

More Than a Protocol

The IEC 61850 standard is so much more than a protocol for communications within substations. It is also an architecture applicable for external communications systems such as substation to substation, substation to control center, and distributed automation communications, as well as metering, electrical equipment condition monitoring and diagnosis, and intelligent electronic device (IED) to engineering systems communications.

IEC 61850 unifies requirements for vendors to supply compatible IEDs to ensure interoperability. Single device and system design testing are an important part of the engineering process in order to ensure conformance and interoperability.

Why Danovo Energy Solutions

Danovo Energy Solutions experts have participated in the development of the IEC 61850 protocol since its inception in 1995, and through its absorption of EPRI UCA in 2000, to yield the single, international, multi-vendor standard for substation protection and data integration. As a starting point for utilities seeking to engage with IEC 61850, our engineers have a full understanding of the features, services, applications and risks, and can lay the groundwork for the development of a plan for a field trial or practical utilization.

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