Greentech Lead India: IEEE has announced five new
standards, as well as a modified standards-development project.
IEEE is aiming at assisting the efficient rollout of the
smart grid worldwide. The new standards and standards projects recently
approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board offer new
dimensions into the IEEE portfolio of more than 100 active standards or
standards in development relevant to the smart grid.
The new standards approved by the IEEE-SA Standards Board
are the byproduct of intensifying smart-grid deployment around the world.
“New lessons have been learned, and best practices
and insights on challenges are surfacing as smart-grid rollout continues to
gain steam globally. The IEEE-SA has been a worldwide leader in smart-grid
standards development even prior to the movement’s inception, and these
standards and projects underscore our ongoing commitment to accelerating
realization of the smart grid’s far-ranging and futuristic promise for power
users, utilities and manufacturers alike,” said Judith Gorman, managing
director, IEEE-SA.
The following are the new Smart-grid standards:
IEEE C37.118.1-2011 — Standard for Synchrophasor
Measurements for Power Systems is intended to define synchronized phasors and
frequency measurements in substations, along with methods and requirements for
verifying such measurements in power system analysis and operations under both
static and dynamic conditions.
IEEE C37.118.2-2011 — Standard for Synchrophasor Data
Transfer for Power Systems is aimed to specify a method (including messaging
types, use, contents and data formats) for real-time communications among
phasor measurement units (PMUs), phasor data concentrators (PDCs) and other
power-system applications.
IEEE C37.238-2011 — Standard Profile for Use of IEEE
Std. 1588 Precision Time Protocol in Power System Applications is designed to
provide precise time synchronization within and among substations across wide
geographic areas via Ethernet communications networks. The standard is intended
to extend proven techniques for precise time distribution to applications such
as mission-critical power-system protection, control, automation and data
communication.
IEEE C37.232-2011 — Standard for Common Format for
Naming Time Sequence Data Files (COMNAME) is designed to define the naming of
time sequence data (TSD) files that originate from digital-protection and
-measurement devices. The standard procedure–gaining in popularity among major
utilities, independent system operators and manufacturers and recommended for
use by North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the Northeast
Power Coordinating Council (NPCC)–helps resolve problems associated with
reporting, saving, exchanging, archiving and retrieving large numbers of files.
IEEE 1020-2011 — Guide for Control of Small (100 kVA to
5 MVA) Hydroelectric Power Plants — updates an existing IEEE standard to
address significant technology changes impacting small hydro-plant control
issues and monitoring requirements that have emerged since the guide’s original
publication.
Additionally, IEEE-SA recently modified the scope and
purpose of an existing standards-development project related to the smart grid.
IEEE P1409 — Draft Guide for the Application of Power Electronics for Power
Quality Improvement on Distribution Systems Rated 1 kV Through 38 kV — is
being developed to introduce and define the emerging technology of custom power
and detail guidelines and performance expectations for its application in
improving power quality and control.