LAPSE:2023.6951
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LAPSE:2023.6951
Towards Software-Defined Protection, Automation, and Control in Power Systems: Concepts, State of the Art, and Future Challenges
Nadine Kabbara, Mohand Ouamer Nait Belaid, Madeleine Gibescu, Luis Ramirez Camargo, Jerome Cantenot, Thierry Coste, Vincent Audebert, Hugo Morais
February 24, 2023
Nowadays, power systems’ Protection, Automation, and Control (PAC) functionalities are often deployed in different constrained devices (Intelligent Electronic Devices) following a coupled hardware/software design. However, with the increase in distributed energy resources, more customized controllers will be required. These devices have high operational and deployment costs with long development, testing, and complex upgrade cycles. Addressing these challenges requires that a ’revolution’ in power system PAC design takes place. Decoupling from hardware-dependent implementations by virtualizing the functionalities facilitates the transition from a traditional power grid into a software-defined smart grid. This article presents a survey of recent literature on software-defined PAC for power systems, covering the concepts, main academic works, industrial proof of concepts, and the latest standardization efforts in this rising area. Finally, we summarize the expected future technical, industrial, and standardization challenges and open research problems. It was observed that software-defined PAC systems have a promising potential that can be leveraged for future PAC and smart grid developments. Moreover, standardizations in virtual IED software development and deployments, configuration tools, performance benchmarking, and compliance testing using a dynamic, agile approach assuring interoperability are critical enablers.
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IEC 61850, interoperability, IT/OT convergence, PAC systems, smart grids, software-defined/virtualized PAC, virtualization technology
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Kabbara N, Nait Belaid MO, Gibescu M, Camargo LR, Cantenot J, Coste T, Audebert V, Morais H. Towards Software-Defined Protection, Automation, and Control in Power Systems: Concepts, State of the Art, and Future Challenges. (2023). LAPSE:2023.6951
Author Affiliations
Kabbara N: EDF R&D, 91120 Palaiseau, France; Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nait Belaid MO: EDF R&D, 91120 Palaiseau, France; LIGM Lab, Gustave Eiffel University, 77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France [ORCID]
Gibescu M: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Camargo LR: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands [ORCID]
Cantenot J: EDF R&D, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Coste T: EDF R&D, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Audebert V: EDF R&D, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Morais H: Inesc-ID, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal [ORCID]
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Energies
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15
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24
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9362
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2022
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2022-12-10
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1996-1073
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