iGrid T&D’s Blog

News & tech­ni­cal articles

PACworld 2023 Conference paper

Today after­noon (28/06/2023), we are at the PAC­world 2023 con­fer­ence (https://conference.pacw.org/paper-presentation-schedule) in Glas­gow. Our PhD can­di­date, Igna­cio Glen­ny, will be pre­sent­ing a paper titled ‘Dig­i­tal Twin-Based Grid Mon­i­tor­ing Frame­work for Rural…

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Disturbance Recording for substation automation systems

What is a COMTRADE file? Pro­tec­tion relays are con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor­ing volt­age and cur­rent wave­forms, fre­quen­cy and pow­er for the pur­pose of detect­ing faults and clear­ing them to pro­tect the infra­struc­ture. This is usu­al­ly done by tak­ing oscil­log­ra­phy sam­ples at a…

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iPPC (power plant controller) for Renewable Generation Plants launch

iPPC (power plant controller) for Renewable Generation Plants launch

The Pow­er Plant Con­troller (PPC) Han­dles the reg­u­la­tion of active and reac­tive pow­er while con­tribut­ing to fre­quen­cy and volt­age sup­port. Fast and accu­rate con­trol at the Point of Inter­con­nec­tion (PoI) is pro­vid­ed by a pow­er qual­i­ty analyser that mon­i­tors the relevant…

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iGrid Power Plant Controller (PPC)

iGrid T&D in coop­er­a­tion with the CITCEA-UPC (Uni­ver­si­tat Politèc­ni­ca de Catalun­ya) has devel­oped reg­u­la­tion algo­rithms to con­trol the amount of active and reac­tive pow­er, fol­low­ing the elec­tri­cal reg­u­la­tor set­points and the cri­te­ria defined by the local grid…

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iGrid India Moves to New Office

iGrid India Moves to New Office

iGrid India Moves to New OfficeOur sales branch in India has moved into a new office space in Ban­ga­lore. As our pro­duc­tion is based in Barcelona, iGrid India is focus­es on pro­vid­ing engi­neer­ing sup­port and man­ag­ing projects in near­by coun­tries. The new office provides…

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iConfICD, the new state-of-the-art tool to design ICD files

iConfICD, the new state-of-the-art tool to design ICD files

While life is get­ting hard­er… con­fig­ur­ing SCL files for IEC 61850 IEDs is not,thanks to the release of our new, user-friend­ly tool:   We have devel­oped iCon­fICD to pro­vide engi­neers with an intu­itive and inde­pen­dent envi­ron­ment for the gen­er­a­tion and…

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New iGWLite family launched at Middle East Electricity 2019 (Dubai)

New iGWLite family launched at Middle East Electricity 2019 (Dubai)

iGrid T&D at Mid­dle East Elec­tric­i­ty 2019iGrid T&D has been present on the MEE2019 in Dubai, show­ing its lat­est solu­tion to the Mid­dle East region cus­tomers. Togeth­er with Thytron­ic, we have had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to talk with our local cus­tomers and partners,…

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NAenCAT project: new technologies on the secondary medium voltage grid

NAenCAT project: new technologies on the secondary medium voltage grid

The project NAen­CAT is apply­ing new automa­tion tech­nolo­gies on the sec­ondary dis­tri­b­u­tion grid, focused on the mid and small DSO. iGrid T&D has devel­oped its new gen­er­a­tion of RTUs, gate­ways and I/O mod­ules for con­trol­ling medi­um volt­age net­works through any…

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Elecrama 2018 (Delhi — India)

Elecrama 2018 (Delhi — India)

iGrid India Pltd has par­tic­i­pat­ed on the Ele­cra­ma 2018 exhi­bi­tion, show­ing the iGrid solu­tions on the Ven­son Elec­tric stand. Dur­ing the exhi­bi­tion iGrid T&D & Thytron­ic staff has vis­it­ed the event to sup­port the local team.

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Ajuntament de Barcelona : Programa de Vocacions Cientificotecnològiques

Ajuntament de Barcelona : Programa de Vocacions Cientificotecnològiques

The Barcelona munic­i­pal­i­ty has start­ed a pro­gram to increase the sci­en­tif­ic voca­tion among the high school stu­dents, pro­mot­ing short stages of sec­ondary school stu­dents on tech­no­log­i­cal com­pa­nies. Dur­ing Decem­ber 2017, one young stu­dent from Insti­tut Barcelona Congrés…

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iGrid T&D in THYTRONIC GROUP

iGrid T&D in THYTRONIC GROUP

iGrid T&D, the Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion Sys­tem com­pa­ny, based in Barcelona, has been acquired by Thytron­ic SpA, the Ital­ian leader in the pro­tec­tion and con­trol mar­ket for the elec­tri­cal pow­er sys­tems, with more than 50 years of his­to­ry on the pro­tec­tion relay market.

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6A Ingenieria : our new partner in Argentina

6A Ingenieria : our new partner in Argentina

Ser­vi­cios Eléc­tri­cos Inteligentes S.A., also known as 6A Inge­niería, has become iGrid T&D part­ner in Argenti­na, fill­ing a hole on the first export mar­ket which was tar­get­ed by iGrid, near 7 years ago. We wish to announce today a long and prof­itable partnership!

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ISO9001:2015 certification

ISO9001:2015 certification

iGrid T&D qual­i­ty sys­tem has been audit­ed by Bureau Ver­i­tas in accor­dance with the stan­dard ISO 9001:2015 (down­load pdf cer­tifi­cate) dur­ing last July. 

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DNV-KEMA IEC 61850 certification

DNV-KEMA IEC 61850 certification

iGComms soft­ware, devel­oped by iGrid T&D has been cer­ti­fied by UCA group, after the test­ing process done by DNV-KEMA, as lev­el A IEC 61850 client, fol­low­ing the IEC 61850 Edi­tion 2 parts 6, 7–1, 7–2, 7–3, 7–4 and 8–1.

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European Utility Week 2016

European Utility Week 2016

Grid T&D is glad to announce its stand on the Euro­pean Util­i­ty Week (3J132), on the Intel­li­gent Grid zone, where we will dis­play our lat­est SCADA, RTU and gate­way solutions.

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South African solution

South African solution

Our South African part­ner, Davinc, has pre­pared a stan­dard solu­tion, based on iCon­trol SCADA and iRTU fam­i­ly, for con­trol­ling small and medi­um size sub­sta­tions, owned by dis­tri­b­u­tion util­i­ties and municipality, …

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Thailand substation automation

Thailand substation automation

Thailand’s econ­o­my has been achiev­ing rapid eco­nom­ic growth, at an aver­age of 10% a year, since 1988. To avoid dis­par­i­ty between the Bangkok met­ro­pol­i­tan area, and oth­er regions in the coun­try, the Thai gov­ern­ment economic .…

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IEC-61850 gateway

IEC-61850 gateway

Gate­ways are an impor­tant part in Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion Sys­tems (SAS). These are hard­ened com­mu­ni­ca­tion devices which col­lect meter­ing, sta­tus, events and fault report data from any pro­tec­tion device inside substation …

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