Conference Agenda

Session

B5-2: Experience with fully digital PACS

Time:

Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: Room 520B

Session Topics:

B5 Protection and automation

Presentations

4:00pm - 4:15pm

Experiences in the commissioning of IEC 61850 digital busbar protection systems.

Atef Boukadi¹, Julder Uzcategui Silva¹, José MENDEZ¹, Jorge Escurra², Miguel Diaz², Hugo Tapia³

¹GE VERNOVA, Canada; ²Engie Energia Peru; ³Luz del Sur, S.A.A.

4:15pm - 4:30pm

Two real cases of IEC-61850 user-profile implementation that improves sustainability while cutting project-times and costs: Enel Colombia (utility) and ISA (TSO).

Daniel Sánchez Castán¹, Paola Diaz², Cesar Hernandez¹

¹Ingenieros Emetres, Americas and Colombia; ²Enel Colombia

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Implementation of Non-Conventional Protection Automation and Control Schemes and IEC61850 communication System in the Expansion of a 500kV/138kV Substation for Transmission-Generation Application

Caren Ramos

EPCOR, Canada

4:45pm - 5:00pm

Secondary Injection Testing in Merging Units Considering Low Power Instrument Transformer Technology

Paulo Sergio Pereira Junior², Antoni Furlani Rosa¹, Rodolfo Bernardino², Gustavo Salge², Cristiano Martins², André Luiz Rios¹, Lucas Varela¹

¹SecuControl Inc, United States of America; ²Conprove Engenharia, Brazil

5:00pm - 5:15pm

Challenges and their remedies for integration of edition-2 IEDs with lower edition SAS for health monitoring of grid assets.

Alok Nayan, Viplav C Reddy, Arvind Choudhary, Nishant Tyagi, Sunit Kumar Singh

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India

5:15pm - 5:30pm

Future of Digital Substations: An Analysis from Conventional Systems to Centralized Protection and Virtualized PAC for Scalability and Efficiency

Paola Andrea Díaz-Vargas¹, Oscar Andres Tobar-Rosero², Germán Darío Rueda-Carvajal², Luis Fernando Quintero-Henao³, Héctor Andrés Florez-Celis², Daniel Sanchez-Castán⁴

¹Independent consultant; ²Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; ³Enterprise Innovation; ⁴IM3 - Ingenieros Emetres

5:30pm - 5:45pm

FLISR and IEC 61850 GOOSE communications over an LTE/5G network using QoS and IP/MPLS: Meeting latency requirements for protection in the electrical distribution grid

Mauricio Subieta

Nokia, United States of America

5:45pm - 6:00pm

Integrating PTP for IEC 61850 Process Bus Applications with Multi-Vendor Ethernet Switches

Curtis Ruff¹, Adam Rudd¹, Galina Antonova², Eric Chuang²

¹EPCOR; ²Hitachi Energy