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Application Testing of IEC 61850 Based Systems

Charles Sufana, Benton Vandiver (Vice-Chair), Mark Adamiak, Mike Agudo, Rene Aguilar, Jay Anderson, Scott Anderson, Alex Apostolov, Farel Becker, Gabriel Benmouyal, Oscar Bolado, James Bougie, Christoph Brunner, Dac-Phuoc Bui, Jason Buneo, John Burger, Matthew Chan, Chris Chelmecki, Mike Dood, Emmanuel Duvelson, Kevin Easley, Alex Ellis, Herbert Falk, Didier Giarratano, Jay Gosalia, Roman Graf, George Gresko, John Grimm, Erich Gunther, Juergen Holbach, Chris Huntley, Mansour Jalali, Mital Kanabar, Stan Klein, Steven Kunsman, Marc Lacroix, Alex Lee, Rick Liposchak, Yuchen Lu, Ralph Mackiewicz, Jose Mar, Deepak Maragal, Aaron Martin, Bruce Muschlitz Shyam Musunuri James Niemira Dan Nordell Mouad Oubidar Jose Perez Dan Reckerd Antonio Riccardo Vijay Shanmugasu Scott Short Mark Simon Veselin Skendzic John Tengdin Dustin Tessier Eric Thibodeau Stephen Thompson Robert Thornton-Jones Harsh Vardhan Jun Verzosa Don Ware Chan Yet Wong Tracy Yuan Mohammad Zubair

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Technical Report 07 Dec 2020

This report provides insight into how to test networks that utilize IEC 61850 for protection and control with an emphasis on GOOSE messaging. Traditional testing versus modern testing methods, the need for good documentation, testing of GOOSE and sampled values, test connections, and performance verification are just some of the topics that are discussed.
The report addresses:
1. Introduction to IEC 61850 testing.
2. Substation network documentation.
3. What tests need to be performed?
4. How to connect to a network to test IEC 61850 devices.
5. Security considerations for IEC 61850 GOOSE testing after commissioning.
6. System performance validation.

Chairs:
Chair: Charles Sufana
Primary Committee:
Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC)
Sponsor Committees:
Relaying Communications and Control Subcommittee Working Group H6