LF Energy Launches Digital Substation Initiative to Modernize Power Grid Infrastructure
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
--Linux Foundation organization, LF Energy, with GE Renewable Energy, Schneider
Electric and RTE, also launched CoMPAS to make substation systems interoperable
as part of this initiative
LF Energy, (
) a Linux Foundation nonprofit coalition that seeks to radically improve power
grid infrastructure through open-source projects, today launched its Digital
Substation Automation Systems (DSAS) initiative to enhance the power grid's
modularity, interoperability and scalability to accelerate the global effort
toward carbon neutrality by 2050.
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LF Energy, in partnership with GE Renewable Energy (
), Schneider Electric (
), RTE, Alliander (
), and other leading organizations in the energy sector, also launched today
the first project under DSAS: CoMPAS (
), or Configuration Modules for Power industry Automation Systems.
"As a global society, we are at a turning point in history," said Dr. Shuli
Goodman (
), Executive Director of LF Energy. "We either continue down our current path,
or we thoroughly examine the processes and infrastructure in place and make
real, meaningful changes that address the climate crisis directly. Our power
grid is notoriously one of the greatest challenges for ending the climate
crisis. With our CoMPAS project and other future DSAS projects, LF Energy and
our members are proud to lead the charge in making 100% decarbonization a
reality as we transform power grid infrastructure."
Digital Substations
The transition from fossil-based fuels to clean energy sources has given rise
to variable conditions that cause fluctuations in power supply and demand, like
renewable energy and electrical vehicles. Because of this, power grid operators
now face greater challenges ensuring the grid is stable and optimizes power
supply and demand.
LF Energy's DSAS initiative seeks to alleviate these challenges by optimizing
electrical substations through open-source technology. These substations form
crossroads of the grids, connecting grid users and grid voltage levels. By
deploying modern, open-source technology, digital substations can more
efficiently adjust to changes in power supply and demand through expanded
dynamic protection settings, better data management capabilities and increased
adaptive automation functions.
Additionally, a more efficient power grid of the future will increasingly
integrate more solutions on the edge of the power grid, such as decentralized
physical infrastructure assets, network or control, applications and analytics.
Transforming our power grid represents one of the great opportunities for
mitigating the climate crisis.
"Digital Substations are growing up and this is the first time that so many
leaders in the energy space have come together to create software to speed up
this technology," said Philippe Brun, Solutions Product Manager at GE Renewable
Energy. "Other industries have shown that collaborating with historical and new
key stakeholders to develop open-source solutions for industry-wide problems
only fuels faster innovation, interoperability, adoption and success. With the
support of LF Energy, GE's Grid Automation is committed to collaborating on
open-source projects like the DSAS initiative and CoMPAS to accelerate creating
the electrical grid of the future."
CoMPAS
CoMPAS is the first of many leveraged collaboration projects in LF Energy's
DSAS initiative. This is the first time in the power industry that
organizations have come together to build open-source solutions for energy
systems from start to finish, as most open-source projects are formed using
existing technology. CoMPAS specifically seeks to build standardized and
broadly applicable software components that optimize protection, automation and
control (PAC) systems, as deploying modern PAC technologies is a pivotal first
step to update substations.
"The multi-vendor and multi-end-user collaboration under the LF Energy umbrella
allowed us to swiftly design a strategic roadmap for the CoMPAS project," said
Lucian Balea (
), R&D Program Director and Open Source Program Officer at RTE, the electricity
TSO of France. "We are excited to start developing open-source code in
collaboration with the CoMPAS community to deliver high-quality software that
accelerates the modernization of our grid infrastructure."
One hurdle to achieving industry-wide modernization of electrical substations
is the lack of interoperability between PAC components from different vendors.
To ensure standardization and encourage broad adoption, CoMPAS's software
components will be developed according to IEC 61850, an open, international
standard that provides the framework to integrate a substation's PAC functions,
regardless of the vendor or end-user. IEC 61850 can be complex to comply with,
which may discourage independent companies from developing technology that
abides by it. CoMPAS seeks to provide the standardized open-source software
building blocks for PAC components vendors to use to create interoperable
digital substation solutions.
"IEC 61850 is widely used across the globe, but the new challenges to
implementing this standard now include user specifications and a lack of
interoperability and reusability between engineering tools," said Camille Bloch
(
), IEC 61850 System Interface Expert at Schneider Electric. "We are excited to
work with LF Energy and its other members to establish open-source,
vendor-independent software components that companies can implement for safer,
more reliable and innovative PACs and to modernize their electrical
substations."
Tune into LF Energy's free Technical Architecture Workshop on July 8, 2020 to
learn about CoMPAS and other LF Energy projects. Find more information and
register here:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lf-energy-tech-architecture-workshop/
Additionally, for more information on becoming an LF Energy member, visit:
https://www.lfenergy.org/about/membership/
About LF Energy
A first-of-its-kind initiative, LF Energy provides a 21st century plan of
action to solve climate change through open frameworks, reference architectures
and a support ecosystem of complementary projects. In addition to RTE, members
include Alliander, Energinet, TenneT, Elering, IBM, NREL, Recurve, Stanford
University, OSISoft, Unicorn, Wind River, Cloud Bees, Alan Turing Institute,
Pecan Street, and many others. Find further information here:
Media Contact
Katy Hoeper, PR Manager
Walker Sands for LF Energy
lfenergypr@walkersands.com
SOURCE: LF Energy
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