Abstract
Synchronized wide area communication has become a mature technology, which makes the real-time interaction between the substations and the wide area protection and control system possible. However, the present protection and control system to handle this real-time data has been recognized to be deficient. This paper begins by reviewing the development history of power system protection, with special attention paid to the recent development in the field of wide-area and integrated protections, in order to look into the future development of protection and control systems. Then the concept of integrated wide area protection and control is introduced, where it can be shown that a hierarchical protection and control system provides the protection and control for wide area or regional power substations/plants and their associated power networks. The system is mainly divided into three levels: the local, the substation/plant, and the wide area/regional. The integrated functions at each level are described in details with an aim to develop an optimal coordination mechanism between each level. The key element in the proposed system is the wide area real-time protection and control information platform, which not only enables the merger of three lines of defence for power system protection and control, but also provides a perfect tool for the application of cloud computing in substations and power networks.
Highlights
Power system protection emerged at the beginning of the last century, with the application of the first electro-mechanical overcurrent relay
Great theoretical progress had been made in the relay protection software, algorithms, etc
Self-healing fibre optical network is employed to connect a number of substations in the region, to ensure full sharing of dynamic and transient information for all electrical measurements, breaker status and protection operations; using high reliability IEEE-1588 technology to ensure the synchronization timing of the sharing data, to prove the data for the integrated wide area protection and control
Summary
Power system protection emerged at the beginning of the last century, with the application of the first electro-mechanical overcurrent relay. The development of modern science and technology, especially electronic and computer technology, promoted the development of relay technology, such as materials, components and the manufacturing process of the hardware structure of relay protection device. Great theoretical progress had been made in the relay protection software, algorithms, etc. The progress in modern technology stimulates the development in power system protection. In the last century from the emergence of protection to the end of the 1990s, the relay protection had gone
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