Breakout Session – EMS, DMS,

Substation Automation, Cybersecurity

• Agenda:
– Introduction
– Review main use cases
– Basic requirements:
• Performance, security and interoperability
– Best practices in testbed development
• Identify areas for improvement
– Methodology to design testbed framework
 From Traditional to Future Grids
Industry challenges Traditional grids
Need for more electricity Years of development to provide
Emissions reduction automation of
Integration and management of renewable energy well-established power system model
Optimal use of ageing assets
• Electromechanical to numerical
Ensure reliability of supply technology
Energy efficiency and security • Centralized and/or distributed
architectures
Future grids • Communication protocols :
Automation systems for a new power interoperability
system and business model
• Decentralized (renewable sources)
• Demand-side management
• FACTS (SVC, TCSC, STATCOM, PST),
HVDC, solid state components
• Microgrids
 Use Cases and Technologies
• Substation Automation Systems
– Closest to the electrical process
– Integration of Intelligent Electronic Devices with
communication/networking technology
– Protection and control, monitoring, wide area
applications
– Protocols: IEC 61850 Process and Station Bus, IEEE
C37.118 synchrophasors
– Hardware: Intelligent Electronic Devices, PMUs,
Switches
– Communications: Ethernet, Fiber, Redundancy –
HSR/PRP
Typical SAS Architecture
 Use Cases and Technologies
• Distribution Network Management Systems
– Integration of data from RTUs, PMUs, IEDs
– SCADA for real time monitoring and control (DNP3, ICCP
protocols)
– Network Functions
• Load flow and short circuit
• Load management
• Network modeling
• Simulator functions
– Outage Management, Work Management
– Enterprise components – servers, clients, databases,
networking equipment
Typical DMS Architecture

Work Training Data

order simulator Engineering
mgmt
 Use Cases and Technologies
• Energy Management Systems
– Integration of data from RTUs, PMUs, IEDs
– SCADA for real time monitoring and control
– Visualization and situational awareness
– Transmission Management and Wide Area Monitoring
• State Estimation
• Load shedding and supervisory control
• Wide area monitoring, FACTS control
– Generation Management
• AGC, Optimal scheduling, dispatch and control
• Weather-adaptive load forecasting
• Market operations
Example EMS Architecture
Cyber Security
 Advantages of SDN
• SDN provides a unified interface control the
behavior of network elements.
• Flexibility
– User-definable network
behaviors
– Ability to reconfigure the network
– Rapid prototyping
• Leverages virtualization
technology
– Integrate virtual IEDs, as well as
networking devices
 SDN based-testbed
• Scenarios: Substation networks, wide area networks,
control center networks.

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 Discussion
• How to test system reliability/security - how to build a
testbed that would evaluate the performance of the
proposed solution?

• What are the best practices for building such a testbed?

• What testbed architectures are used by

Industry/Academia

• What is missing/What are the opportunities for building

such as testbed?