Protection & Control Verification
Using expert knowledge and experience to develop, test, and assess protection and control schemes to enable safe and reliable grid operation.
Our Global Team
International
Mansour Jalali
Principal Engineer, Protection & Control, InternationalOur Global Team
Canada
Ken D'Silva
T&D Senior Business Development Director, CanadaOur Global Team
United States
Aron Sexton
T&D Senior Business Development Director, United StatesOverview
Reliable communications are taking on an ever-increasing role for utilities when it comes to safe and reliable protection and control of the power grid. Our extensive experience in designing and commissioning relay systems enables us to undertake testing and to provide consulting support to both planned designs and existing systems. Our protection expertise includes transmission, distribution, generation and industrial segments and is focused on optimizing the reliability and safety of power grids.
Our laboratory contains all of the equipment necessary to help you meet the new set of global standards for IEC 61850 and, achieve significant savings with in-house integration and “plug and work” approaches.
Why Us?
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Independent Services
We provide independent testing for performance verification, proof of concept, homologation, and type tests for substation automation systems and equipment, including control, communication, and intelligent electronic devices (protective relays).
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IEC 61850 Verification for Substations
Our IEC 61850 system verification lab is one of the first in North America to mitigate risk and facilitate a smooth transition for the deployment of modern substation automation systems.
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Informed Testing
With engineers that are experts in component and system testing who use industrial and new leading-edge standards and state-of-the-art equipment, you can be sure you will get the tests you need.
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Helping Develop Reliable Systems
We evaluate existing protection philosophies and practices and compare them against industry best practices to recommend upgrades to protection and control systems and help drive improvements.
Technical Abilities
Protection & Control System Testing Services
Protection and control systems work to keep the power system stable by removing from service components that are prone to the disturbance while leaving as much of the network as possible still in operation. Backed by our comprehensive testing capabilities, we can perform the necessary calculations to determine settings for relevant protection functions based on your specific protection needs.
We provide extensive testing capability with several key features:
- Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) with full station and process bus simulation
- State-of-the-art Omicron CMC356 test set with full Net-1 option capability
- Test suite for GOOSE messaging, and sample value message generation
- Background traffic simulation
- Protocol analysis
- Partnered for EMI, RFI compatibility
- Environmental (Temperature, Humidity) Testing
- End of useful life determination
- Site Commissioning
Protection and Control Scheme Development
Our years of experience and expertise enables us to assist you in developing reliable protection and control schemes for power systems of any size. We can define required protection functions for power generation, transmission and distribution utilities for all necessary equipment such as transmission lines, transformers, circuit breakers, and generator motors. We evaluate existing protection philosophies and practices and compare them against industry best practices to recommend upgrades to protection and controls systems and help drive improvements.
IEC61850 Expertise and Training
IEC 61850 is an international standard, defining communication protocols for intelligent electronic devices at electrical substations to reliably communicate with each other. We are uniquely qualified to offer system verification, and interoperability testing based on the widely accepted IEC 61850 standard.
We offer:
- System Integration Testing
- Testing and verifying the correctness of device configuration, project engineering, and interoperability of devices from different manufacturers
- Functionality Testing
- Single device protection setting, timing, zone reach testing
- Multiple devices protection scheme testing
- Performance Evaluation
- Co-ordination with utilities to define performance evaluation criteria, and to conduct performance evaluation in terms of latency delay, priority handling, and single and double point of failure
Our Proven Experience
Quality Assurance & Technical Standards
- IEC 60870-5
- Telecontrol Equipment and Systems - Part 5: Transmission Protocols
- IEC 61850
- Communication Networks And Systems For Power Utility Automation
- IEC 61968
- Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management
- IEC 61970
- Energy management system application program interface
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