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The best practices of substation integration and automation will cover three primary areas - system architecture, protocols and a utility case study. Definitions of Intelligent Electronic Device (IED), IED Implementation, IED Integration, and Substation Automation will be discussed. Rather than using the term "Substation Automation", we prefer to use the term "Substation Integration and Automation", which is more indicative of the work being done by utilities today.
There are three levels of work being done in the substation today: IED Implementation, IED Integration, and Substation Automation. The focus of utilities today is at the IED Integration level. The three functional data paths from the integrated substation to the utility enterprise will be discussed regarding bandwidth requirements and protocols. We will differentiate between new versus existing substations. We will discuss the fundamentals of protocols, and the protocol considerations for IEDs, substation networks, and communications from the substation to SCADA/EMS.
We will then review current industry substation integration and automation projects, and see a sample utility case study including the functional system architecture that was in the Request For Proposal (RFP), and the actual vendor/integrator architecture installed in the utility's substation to meet the functional requirements.
John D. McDonald, P.E., is Senior Principal Consultant and Manager of Automation, Reliability and Asset Management for KEMA Consulting. In his 29 years of experience in the electric utility industry, John has developed power application software for both Energy Management System (EMS) and Distribution Management System (DMS) applications, developed distribution automation and load management systems, managed EMS and DMS projects, and assisted Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) suppliers in the automation of their IEDs. John is currently assisting electric utilities in substation automation, distribution SCADA, communication protocols and Distribution Management Systems.
John received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, is a Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 and the IEEE PES Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering in 2002. In his seventeen years of Working Group and Subcommittee leadership with the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Substations Committee, John led seven Working Groups and Task Forces who published Standards/Tutorials in the areas of distribution SCADA, master/remote terminal unit (RTU) and RTU/IED communications.
John is Secretary of the IEEE PES, is Co-Vice Chair of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee (SCC) 36, is Corresponding Member to IEC Technical Committee (TC) 57 Working Group (WG) 11, and is the Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee. John is a member of the Advisory Committee for the annual DistribuTECH Conference, is a member of the Editorial Board for the IEEE "Power & Energy" magazine, and is a charter member of "T&D World" magazine's International Editorial Advisory Board.
John teaches an EMS/DMS course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Substation Automation course at Iowa State University, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses for the American Public Power Association and for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. John has published seventeen papers in the areas of SCADA, EMS, DMS and communications, and is a registered Professional Engineer (Electrical) in California, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
John is co-author of the book "Automating a Distribution Cooperative, from A to Z", published by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Cooperative Research Network (CRN) in 1999. John was Editor of the Substations Chapter, and a co-author, for the book "The Electric Power Engineering Handbook", co-sponsored by the IEEE PES and published by the CRC Press in 2000. John is Editor-in-Chief, and Substation Integration and Automation Chapter author, for the book "The Electric Power Substation Engineering Handbook", which will be published by the CRC Press in June 2003.
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| ComEd Commercial Center - Auditorium | 5:30 PM | Social | |
| 1919 Swift Drive (park behind building) | 6:00 PM | Dinner | |
| Oak Brook, IL 60523-1850 | 7:00 PM | Presentation | |
| (near I-290 & I-294 interchange) | 8:30 PM | Adjourn | |
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