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REFERENCE

ABB technology on the top

RTU520-based monitoring and control for
substations
The increasing utilisation of
renewable energy sources is
changing the behaviour of electrical
distribution networks, such that
the network is becoming potentially
less stable.
This necessitates closer monitoring
and control of the network than in
the past. The increasingly complex
power flows in the network must
be taken account of in the network
control system.

The customer Customer feedback

The Swiss utility AEW Energie AG based in Aargau is The customer AEW says that ABB has provided them
responsible for operating and maintaining a large with cost-efficient solution for transferring digital
number of substations as well as the medium- and and analog values from digital protection devices
low-voltage networks in its region. (IEDs) in transformer stations to their SCADA sys-
tem.
Challenges
AEW commissioned ABB Switzerland to develop, en-
gineer and commission a concept for monitoring a
secondary transformer station.
The solution needed to be price-wise competitive
and future-proof, being the basis for extending fur-
ther transformer stations, which must be refur-
bished in the future.

ABB solution
ABB offered a cost-effective solution, which moni-
tors the transformer station remotely. Important in-
formation such as the status of the control and pro-
tection IEDs is made available to AEW’s control
system in real-time. Additionally, commands to the
relays can be sent remotely from the control system.
Common alarms are hard-wired to the binary input
card and also sent to the control system.
 IEC 60870-5-104

Remote Terminal Unit

RTU520

IEC 60870-5-103

IED

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— ABB scope of delivery Customer advantages

01 Ready to install
wall-mounted cabinet • RTU520 Remote Terminal Units • Future proof system with easy and fast exten-
— • Integration of protection IED‘s with RS-485 sion options for further projects
02 System overview
communication (IEC 60870-5-103) • Increased grid visibility enabling AEW to take
• Ethernet Switch for the IEC 60870-5-104 com- the right decision at the right time
munication to the control system • The solution allows for operational cost reduc-
• Binary input card for common alarms tions, as the transformer can be monitored and
• Wall mounted cabinet controlled remotely
• HW schematics • Cost effective solution thanks to the small and
• Option: Remote control and status supervision compact RTU520
of the primary equipment with digital I/O mod-
ules.

The RTU product family allows a modular design

which maximises the possibilities to maintain and ex-
tend the system.
The finalized solution is fully configured, wired and
tested by ABB and delivered ready to be installed.

4CAE000345 EN March 2017

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