Industry Viewpoints on IEC 61850

Adopting IEC 61850 promises utilities the ability to design and build protection, control, and automation schemes more quickly and efficiently, and provide easy access to data to drive solutions to operate substations and the overall power system better. Moving towards IEC 61850 communications requires careful planning, the involvement of many different stakeholders in the utility, and making many decisions on how best to implement 61850 at your company. The panelists are all utility representatives that will discuss their viewpoint on IEC 61850. The panelists will talk about their reasons for adopting or waiting to adopt IEC 61850, the decisions they’ve made on their current path, and what they’ve done and learned.