This document presents the commissioning of the first IEC 61850 Process Bus installation for American Electric Power (AEP) with GE Vernova's Merging Units (HardFiber Bricks) and Universal Relays.

This paper outlines the high-level design principles for protection and control systems, illustrated using a practical solution for implementing ultra-critical protection and control IEC 61850 process bus applications.

This paper presents a new Distributed Bus Protection System that is not only as a protection system, but also a platform that incorporates the data from the HV equipment in an IEC 61850 process bus scheme.

A huge opportunity for material, time and manpower savings exists in the reduction of substation copper control cables. Read about American Electric Power’s journey to removing control cabling and replacing it with fiber-optic communication.

This paper discusses the models developed to calculate improvements in customer outage minutes for various levels of Distribution Automation, the latter being a cornerstone for Smart Grid development.

This paper reviews the various options for automating a distribution system utilizing a range of techniques and algorithm locations with a comparison of the various levels and a discussion of the advantages/disadvantages.