The DS Agile C264 substation controller is a sophisticated solution supporting multiple applications and functions for substation control, communication, monitoring, protection, and automation. Flexibility, reliability and ease of use are among the top features required in a substation computer; the latest release of DS Agile C264 has these features and is equipped with a new generation CPU (CPU4v2) compatible with 64 Bits technology.

A combination of dual redundant fiber optic Ethernet, modular I/O, expandable design, and an extensive library of functions make the C264 the ideal solution for a wide array of applications in substation digital control systems.

Key Benefits

• Flexible, modular and expandable design to support many applications
• Dual-bay management with two embedded CT/VT acquisition boards including measurements and sampled values streams to reduce the number of controllers
• Back up protection function
• New 64 Bits processor that allows virtual address ranges greater than 4GB in size
• HSR/PRP RedBox capability to connect PRP/HSR non-compliant devices to the redundant network, reducing the number of RedBoxes
• Reduce engineering costs and amount of devices, wiring, cabling and training required by using the multi-functional capabilities
• IEC 61850-8-1 and IEC 61850-9-2 standard compliance for interoperability
• LCD graphical display for user-friendly local control, monitoring and maintenance
• Seamless integration with existing substation assets with flexible interfaces, expandability and support of legacy and cutting-edge communication protocols
• Proven solution with more than 50,000 units installed worldwide

Applications

• Full digital substation and conventional substation
• Transmission, distribution, utilities and industrial
• Green field and brown field substation

C264 CPU3 Please contact GE Vernova to check availability for brownfield applications. Note: GE Vernova has confirmed order book closed for greenfield applications on 31st May 2024. As an alternative, please refer to C264 CPU4.

C264 CPU4 remains available, with more processing power and memory capacity than CPU3, it has 6 Ethernet ports supporting protocols for redundant networking architecture. Enabled to communicate through several protocols and with flexibility to incorporate complex IEC 61131-3 soft logics.

Key benefits:

The Configuration tool SCE is defined to handle all system structured data and to generate databases loaded on DS Agile System main equipment:

• DS Agile aView, the system HMIs
• DS Agile SMT, the System Management Tool that download databases
• DS Agile Gateway, the separate Tele-control Interface to the SCADA
• DS Agile C26x controllers (Bay Control Units, Protection and Control Units, Remote Terminal Units)

Engineering tool suite

The tool is designed to be used for several system pieces of equipment working together with their exchange communication data, or only one of them. For example, it can generate the database of a DS Agile C26x Standalone RTU.

The DS Agile SCE applications are mainly defined in the Application chapter (AP) of each DS Agile sub-system (DS Agile C26x, DS Agile Gateway). DS Agile aView configuration is described in the DS Agile Blend & Mimic Designer manual (Application chapter for the SCE part).

The Black/Silver front panel is offering a USB connector, the Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers from FTDI Chip manufacturer need to be installed.

The C30 controller system is a substation hardened device designed to perform substation control logic that can also expand the I/O capability of protection devices and replace existing Sequence of Events (SOE) Recorders. The C30 provides fast and deterministic execution of programmable logic with I/O capabilities far above an average protection relay. Graphical programming tools, supported by a library of logic operators, make the C30 simple to use and configure. Using high-speed peer-to-peer communications for inter-device messaging, the C30 can also accept signals and commands from other protection and control devices at a fraction of the cost of hard-wiring these signals. Control, automation, I/O expansion and data gathering are ideally suited for the C30 in the following applications:

• Bay control
• Substation automation
• Remote I/O

• Oscillography – analog and digital parameters at 64 samples/cycle
• Event Recorder - 1024 time tagged events with 0.5ms scan of digital inputs
• Data Logger - 16 channels with sampling rate up to 1 sample / cycle
• Setting for security audit trails for tracking changes to C30 configurations

Monitoring & Diagnostic

The C30 provides high resolution measuring of the status of external devices wired to its contact inputs. The changing of a contact input status can be measured and time-stamped with a 0.5ms resolution, making the C30 ideal for bay or substation Sequence of Events recording.

Advanced Automation

The C30 incorporates advanced automation features including powerful FlexLogic™ programmable logic, peer-to-peer communications and SCADA capabilities that far surpass what is found in the average PLC or controller. The C30 integrates seamlessly with other UR relays to extend the I/O capabilities and perform complete bay management and control.

• Three independent 100Mbps Ethernet ports enable purpose specific LAN support that eliminates latency effect of heavy traffic protocols on mission critical communication services
• Embedded IEEE 1588 time synch protocol support eliminates dedicated IRIG-B wiring requirements for IEDs
• Direct I/O secures high-speed exchange of binary data between URs
• Increase network availability by reducing failover time to zero through IEC62439-3 "PRP" support

Advanced Communications

The C30 provides advanced communications technologies for remote data and engineering access, making it easy and flexible to use and integrate into new and existing infrastructures. Direct support for fiber optic Ethernet provides high-bandwidth communications allowing for low-latency controls and high-speed file transfers of relay fault and event record information. The available three independent and redundant Ethernet options provide the means to create fault tolerant communication architectures in an easy, cost-effective manner.

The C30 supports the most popular industry standard protocols enabling easy, direct integration into DCS and SCADA systems.

Use the C30 with integrated IEC 61850 to lower costs associated with generator protection, control and automation. GE Vernova’s leadership in IEC 61850 comes from thousands of installed devices and follows on years of development experience with UCA 2.0.

The G30’s IEC 61850 Process Bus module is designed to interface with the Multilin HardFiber System, allowing bi-directional IEC 61850 fiber optic communications. The HardFiber System is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing Universal Relay applications, including protection functions, FlexLogic, metering and communications. Learn more

CyberSentry enables UR devices to deliver full cyber security features that help customers to comply with NERC CIP and NITIR 7628 cyber security requirements through supporting the following core features:

Secure FW upgrade

UR FW files v7.9 and up now include a hash code that allows for authentication prior to being used for upgrading UR devices.

Password Complexity

Supporting up to 20 alpha- numeric or special characters, UR passwords exceed NERC CIP requirements for password complexity. Individual passwords per role are available.

AAA Server Support (Radius)

Enables integration with centrally managed authentication and accounting of all user activities and uses modern industry best practices and standards that meet and exceed NERC CIP requirements for authentication and password management.

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Efficiently administrate users and roles within UR devices. The new and advanced access functions allow users to configure up to five roles for up to eight configurable users with independent passwords. The standard “Remote Authentication Dial In User Service” (Radius) is used for authentication. 

Event Recorder (Syslog for SEM)

Capture all cyber security related events within a SOE element (login, logout, invalid password attempts, remote/local access, user in session, settings change, FW update, etc), and then serve and classify data by security level using standard Syslog data format. This enables UR devices integration with established SEM (Security Event Management) systems.

Certified Security

UR devices are industry-leading with 3rd party cyber security certification such as: Wurldtech Achilles Level-1 for network resilience and NIST FIPS-140-2 for all encryption components.

EnerVista™ Software

The EnerVista suite is an industry-leading set of software programs that simplifies every aspect of using the C30 protection relay. The EnerVista suite provides all the tools to monitor the status of the protected asset, maintain the relay, and integrate information measured by the C30relay into DCS or SCADA monitoring systems. Convenient COMTRADE and Sequence of Events viewers are an integral part of the UR setup software included with every UR relay, to carry out postmortem event analysis and ensure proper protection system operation. Learn More

The C650 incorporates industry-leading communication technologies making it one of the easiest and flexible feeder protection relays for use and integration into new and existing infrastructures. The C650 provides optional Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP), High Availability Seamless Ring (HSR) (IEC 62439-3) and also Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) (IEEE 802.1D) to increase network availability and reliability for critical applications.

The C650 supports industry leading, standard protocols enabling easy, direct integration into electrical SCADA and HMI systems. The protocols supported includes:

• IEC 61850 Edition 2
• DNP 3.0
• Modbus RTU & TCP/IP
• IEC 60870-5-104
• PRP & HSR (IEC 62439-3)
• RSTP (IEEE 802.1D)
• IEEE 1588 (PTP) for time synchronization

The C650 provides integration with 61850 standard edition 2 devices. IEC 61850 allows for the seamless connection of IEDs from multiple vendors. In addition to device interoperability, these protocols are designed to control the substation via a LAN instead of through discrete wiring to an RTU.

Example of redundant HSR and PRP Architecture

Redundancy protocols can be used for various networking architectures including combined PRP / HSR technologies.

Redundant HSR and PRP architecture capabilities

The EnerVista Suite is an industry - leading set of software programs that simplifies every aspect of using the C650 relay. The EnerVista suite provides all the tools to monitor the status of your the protected asset, maintain the relay, and integrate information measured by the C650 into DCS or SCADA monitoring systems. Convenient COMTRADE and Sequence of Events viewers are an integral part of the 650 Setup software included with every C650 relay, to carry out postmortem event analysis to ensure proper protection system operation.

C650 Logic Configuration is the powerful programming logic engine that provides the ability of creating customized protection and control schemes thereby minimizing the need, and the associated costs, of auxiliary components and wiring.

The C60 breaker and C95 bay controllers are a substation-hardened-devices that provides a complete integrated package for the protection, control, and monitoring of circuit breakers or bays. The C60/C95 support dual-breaker busbar configurations such as breaker-and-a-half or ring bus arrangements. Signals from up to 4 sets of CT’s can be brought into the C60/C95 for internal summation which is advantageous by still having the individual currents available for metering and additional protection elements that operate on individual currents.

The C60/C95 provide fast and deterministic execution of programmable logic and extensive I/O options that are necessary for substation automation applications.

All of the necessary control logic functions are available for creating automated breaker control schemes such as the popular main-tie-main scheme using a single C60 / C95 device.

Complete IEC 61850 Process Bus solution providing resource optimization and minimizing total P & C life cycle costs

• Three independent 100Mbps Ethernet ports enable purpose specific LAN support that eliminates latency effect of heavy traffic protocols on mission critical communication services
• Embedded IEEE 1588 time-synch protocol support eliminates dedicated IRIG-B wiring requirements for IEDs
• Direct I/O secures high-speed exchange of binary data between URs
• Increase network availability by reducing failover time to zero through IEC62439-3 PRP, HSR or dual HSR support

Advanced Communications

The C60/C95 provide advanced communications technologies for remote data and engineering access, making it easy and flexible to use and integrate into new and existing infrastructures. Direct support for fiber optic Ethernet provides high-bandwidth communications allowing for low-latency controls and high-speed file transfers of relay fault and event record information. The available three independent and redundant Ethernet options provide the means to create fault tolerant communication architectures in an easy, cost-effective manner.

The C60/C95 support the most popular industry standard protocols enabling easy, direct integration into DCS and SCADA systems.

Use the C60/C95 with integrated IEC 61850 to lower costs associated with breaker or bay protection, control and automation. GE Vernova’s leadership in IEC 61850 comes from thousands of installed devices and follows on years of development experience with UCA 2.0.

The C60’s IEC 61850 Process Bus module is designed to interface with the Multilin HardFiber System, allowing bi-directional IEC 61850 fiber optic communications. The HardFiber System is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing Universal Relay applications, including protection functions, FlexLogic, metering and communications. Learn More

The C60 can also connect to GE Vernova MU320 or third-party merging units using standard IEC 61869 or IEC 61850-9-2LE communication protocols.

Cyber Security - CyberSentry™ UR (FW v7.4xx)

CyberSentry enables UR devices to deliver full cyber security features that help customers to comply with NERC CIP and NITIR 7628 cyber security requirements through supporting the following core features:

Secure FW upgrade

UR FW files v7.9 and up now include a hash code that allows for authentication prior to being used for upgrading UR devices.

Password Complexity

Supporting up to 20 alpha- numeric or special characters, UR passwords exceed NERC CIP requirements for password complexity. Individual passwords per role are available.

AAA Server Support (Radius)

Enables integration with centrally managed authentication and accounting of all user activities and uses modern industry best practices and standards that meet and exceed NERC CIP requirements for authentication and password management.

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Efficiently administrate users and roles within UR devices. The new and advanced access functions allow users to configure up to five roles for up to eight configurable users with independent passwords. The standard “Remote Authentication Dial In User Service” (Radius) is used for authentication. 

Event Recorder (Syslog for SEM)

Capture all cyber security related events within a SOE element (login, logout, invalid password attempts, remote/local access, user in session, settings change, FW update, etc), and then serve and classify data by security level using standard Syslog data format. This enables UR devices integration with established SEM (Security Event Management) systems.

EnerVista™ Software

The EnerVista™ suite is an industry-leading set of software programs that simplifies every aspect of using the C60 / C95 controllers. The EnerVista™ suite provides all the tools to monitor the status of the protected asset, maintain the relay, and integrate information measured by the C60/C95 into DCS or SCADA monitoring systems. Convenient COMTRADE and Sequence of Events viewers are an integral part of the UR setup software included with every UR relay, to carry out postmortem event analysis and ensure proper protection system operation. Learn More