and Control Designing a Smart-er Grid April 16, 2020 Who am I? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Who am I? • Jeff MacKinnon, P.Eng., PE • Electrical Engineer • Lives in Halifax • Professional focus on Electrical Safety, Hydro-generation and PV Solar energy. • www.jmkengineering.com/vts

More about JMK Engineering • Check out: • www.jmkengineering.com/vts • Summary of this presentation • Slides • Newsletter

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Goals of this presentation • Introduce Smart Grid • Interoperability within Utility departments. • System of systems approach • Model framework and sample design

Utilities Operate in Departments • Transmission and Distribution • Power Production • Technology (Includes IT) • Communications • Human Resources • Finance • Commercial • Regulatory, Legal, Planning and Government Relations

How they work together

IT as a bridge group • Interfaces with EVERY department • Understands the cybersecurity risk.

Birth of Smart Grid • First official definition in 2007 • Integrated network communications

IT and OT Information Technology Operations Technology • Short support life (3-5yrs) • Long support life (40yrs+) • Business oriented • Operation/Industry oriented • Constantly changing • Typically minimal changes after environment commissioning • Commercial Off the shelf • Custom Hardware and software based on standards.

Time is critical in control • A cycle is 16ms • Ping to google is 19ms • Network latency is not always predictable.

Make the problem smaller Divide and Conquer First Principles

I have a plan • Think interoperability • Break the system into a bunch of smaller systems • Add predictability • Standardize methods to make recipes for reports.

What are the nodes in a utility

Connecting to the Enterprise • Geography changes the design method • Good vs poor communication • Communication latency

Standardize Everything • Create standard scaffolds to build upon • Standardize naming and description • Think recipe book not a single recipe • Standardize on process not part number

Good Communication Infrastructure • RTAC and firewall to communicate to VTScada Server • Local HMI powered from the SEL-3530 RTAC • All local assets connected to RTAC via various protocols and mediums

Weak Communication Infrastructure • Local VTScada application replaces HMI. • Synced with VTScada application at the data center • Communications design based on design requirements • Some relayed through RTAC • Some parallel with RTAC • SCADA server connected to the both RTAC and firewall.

What did we cover • First, thanks to Trihedral for having me and Dave Spencer for sending the invitation. • https://jmkengineering.com/vts

What we didn’t cover • The start of the discussion • Smart Grid is an evolution in thinking, not a step change • Start small and start building

Continued reading • The Plug-and-Play Electricity Era: Interoperability to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime in IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 47-58, Sept.-Oct. 2019. • IEEE Smart Grid • https://smartgrid.ieee.org/ • https://resourcecenter.smartgrid.ieee.org/ • NIST • https://www.nist.gov/el/smart-grid

Questions? • Contact Information: • Email: jeff@jmkengineering.com • Social: • Twitter – www.twitter.com/jmkengineering • Linkedin – www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmackinnon • Website: http://www.jmkengineering.com/vts