Medium Voltage Distribution Grid Automation

The new big chal­lenge for grid automa­tion

Advantages of Our Solution

  • RTUs and Gate­ways are able to han­dle mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols to main station/control cen­ter (IEC60870‑5–104, IEC60870‑5–101, DNP3.0, Mod­bus).
  • Abil­i­ty to adapt to dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ca­tion media. The iRTU and iGW are avail­able with built-in GPRS or PSTN modems.
  • iCon­trol Con­trol Cen­ter Edi­tion is pre­pared to man­age the com­mu­ni­ca­tion and data sent by thou­sands of RTUs from dif­fer­ent ven­dors.

Solution Description

Once the trans­mis­sion and HV dis­tri­b­u­tion grids are auto­mat­ed, the next step to improve the grid per­for­mances and reduce dra­mat­i­cal­ly the out­ages, is the medi­um volt­age dis­tri­b­u­tion grid automa­tion, with lev­els rang­ing from 33kV to 6kV. But the medi­um volt­age grid automa­tion has rep­re­sent­ed a big chal­lenge for many util­i­ties, as it is less crit­i­cal and huge, with thou­sands of sub­sta­tions, trans­form­ers and feed­ers.

The chal­lenge is to find solu­tions adapt­ed to more remote places with less pre­pared facil­i­ties (with­out tem­per­a­ture con­trol and less main­te­nance), which should use com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­works with het­ero­ge­neous medias and low­er per­for­mances (band­width, safe­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty) com­pared to the ones used in the high volt­age sub­sta­tions.

Medium Voltage Distribution Grid Automation Products

Medium Voltage RTUs

Intel­li­gent, flex­i­ble and scal­able RTUs (Remote Tele­con­trol Units) for MV grid automa­tion. They can be equipped with built-in GPRS or PSTN modems, and sup­port stan­dard pro­to­cols includ­ing IEC61850, IEC60870‑5–104, DNP3.0, Mod­bus, DLMS, etc.

iControl SCADA, Control Center Edition

iCon­trol Con­trol Cen­ter Edi­tion is able to man­age thou­sands of RTUs from dif­fer­ent ven­dors, and to sup­port mul­ti­ple archi­tec­tures in order to adapt to util­i­ties require­ments. iCon­trol SCADA is avail­able with advanced func­tion­al­i­ties such as serv­er redun­dan­cy, auto­mat­ic line col­or­ing, alarms noti­fi­ca­tion via e‑mail and/or sms, SQL log­ging, and reports gen­er­a­tion.

Schema

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iGrid T&D Medi­um Volt­age RTUs are designed think­ing in:

  • Easy adap­ta­tion to dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ca­tion media (built-in GPRS or PSTN modems are avail­able)
  • Mas­sive, fast, and reli­able deploy­ment
  • Use of stan­dard com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols (IEC60870‑5–101, IEC60870‑5–104, DNP3.0 and Mod­bus)
  • Remote main­te­nance and upgrad­ing
  • Rugged design to endure any envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tion
  • Wide pow­er sup­ply range

 

While iCon­trol Con­trol Cen­ter edi­tion is pre­pared for:

  • Con­trol­ling thou­sands of RTUs, feed­ers and trans­form­ers
  • Oper­at­ing the grid eas­i­ly and reli­ably
  • Allow­ing mul­ti­ple archi­tec­tures to be adapt­ed to each util­i­ty need, from stand-alone sys­tems to redun­dant schemas with mul­ti­ple remote clients

More solutions for smart grids, substations and energy plants

IEC61850

iGrid T&D’s SCADA, RTUs, sub­sta­tion gate­ways, pro­to­col con­vert­ers and bay con­trollers sup­port both IEC61850 client and serv­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion capa­bil­i­ties. When act­ing as IEC61850 servers, our solu­tions are able to map any exist­ing IED to IEC61850 log­i­cal devices

Solu­tions: iEC61850

Substation Automation

IEC61850, IEC60870‑5–104 and DNP3.0 (as well as oth­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols) are used world­wide for sub­sta­tions’ automa­tion. iGrid T&D solu­tions use all of them to have a com­plete­ly inter­op­er­abil­i­ty with any oth­er ven­dor

Solu­tions: Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion

Smart metering

Our smart meter­ing solu­tions sup­port the most pop­u­lar meter­ing pro­to­cols (IEC60870‑5–102, Mod­bus and DLMS) and mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion media. iGrid T&D is work­ing with the most impor­tant meter man­u­fac­tur­ers world­wide to col­lect and deliv­er meter­ing infor­ma­tion to the elec­tri­cal mar­ket

Solu­tions: Smart Meter­ing

Protocol converter

Retro­fitting elec­tri­cal facil­i­ties means to use the newest devices togeth­er with the old­est ones. For these projects, flex­i­ble and adapt­able pro­to­col con­vert­ers are vital devices.

Solu­tions: Pro­to­col con­vert­er

Hydroelectric generation plant

Hydro­elec­tric gen­er­a­tion plants require remote con­trol fol­low­ing the elec­tri­cal sys­tems stan­dards, but a high­er degree of automa­tion is request­ed, as spe­cial pro­ce­dures are request­ed for actions like dams open/close, gen­er­a­tor start/stop, etc. iGrid solu­tions will give you easy tools to auto­mate small and big hydro­elec­tric gen­er­a­tion plants

Solu­tions: Hydro­elec­tric gen­er­a­tion plant

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Insti­tu­tion in charge: IGRID SL. Pur­pos­es of data pro­cess­ing: Cus­tomer con­tact. Archived data loca­tion: Raio­la Net­works SL (UE). Per­son­al data retain peri­od: Until removal request. Rights: You can exer­cise your rights of access, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion, can­cel­la­tion and oppo­si­tion.