We pride ourselves on offering accurate, consistent and practical information on IEC 61850 and related technologies. This eliminates the risk of receiving vendor-focused training that overly emphasizes one vendor’s products, while overlooking the IEC 61850 aspects. This is training to educate users, not to sell boxes.
Includes hands-on workshop configuring merging units, protection IEDs, Ethernet switches, PTP clocks, and SV/GOOSE/MMS testing and simulation equipment from all major vendors.
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This 5-day training course covers everything in the Tier I and Tier II training, including classroom and hands-on workshop sessions. The Sampled Values, GOOSE and MMS workshops are completed by participants after the corresponding classroom sessions each day. In these workshop sessions, participants configure real IEDs, including process bus, from a wide range of major vendors in our Mobile Digital Substation.
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This course provides participants with a detailed understanding and practical skills in Virtual Protection and Control (vPAC) systems and advanced digital substation technologies. It covers the principles, benefits, and architecture of both centralized and virtualized protection systems. Participants will also learn about the transition to virtualization in substation environments. The course introduces the vPAC Alliance and emphasizes industry collaboration.
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This course focuses on equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to test and troubleshoot problems related to an IEC 61850 implementation and practice using software tools to identify issues on actual hardware. The material is tailored towards operators and technicians so they may better identify where the issue is in the digital design and achieve faster recovery and restoration.
Learn MoreThe objective of this training course is to gain a fundamental understanding of IEC 61850 so users are comfortable with the concepts of the standard. This course consists of 3 days of classroom sessions, which cover IEC 61850 theoretical information in a direct manner that is easily understood, regardless of the participants prior IEC 61850 knowledge or experience.
Learn MoreClassroom sessions cover advanced theoretical aspects and participants configure a range of IEDs from major vendors in our Mobile Digital Substation in the hands-on workshops: configuring and testing of Sampled Values, GOOSE and MMS communications.
Learn MoreParticipants complete the full specification, design, configuration and testing of a demo IEC 61850 project, which allows them to gain an insight into every aspect of an IEC 61850 implementation.
Learn MoreParticipants will learn the fundamentals of the most widely-used utility communications protocol in North America, including its message structure, services, data objects, conformance subsets, options, cyber-security mechanisms, configuration file format, and an overview of the IEEE Std 1815.1 mapping between DNP3 and IEC 61850.
Learn MoreThis course provides an overview of applying cyber-security in the power industry through a description of the security addition to DNP3, including its capabilities, requirements, options, test procedures and compliance. Concepts explained include authentication, authorization, encryption, layers, role-based access, message integrity, and certificates.
Learn MoreParticipants will learn the opportunities in applying today’s technologies to the distribution network through Distribution Automation (DA) and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). Discusses a wide range of applications from traditional Volt-VAR and remote switching up to self-healing, renewables firming, and microgrids. Covers the IEEE Std 1547 and its mapping to DNP3.
Learn MoreThe IEC 61850 Specification Workshop is a combination of training and consulting services, with the objective to develop an initial draft of the user’s IEC 61850 system specification, including the SSD file and associated bay templates using the HELINKS system specification tool (SST) functionality. This workshop includes the modelling and templating of the various PAC schemes, including the GOOSE/SV/MMS applications. The goal is to produce an IEC 61850 system specification that is “ready” for refinement and eventually deployment as part of the user’s top-down process.
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This course aims to provide a deeper level of understanding of Ethernet networking and Ethernet-based time synchronization via PTP for participants already familiar with IEC 61850-based systems. Participants will learn about the relevant redundancy and traffic management concepts, configure substation-class Ethernet switches and clocks, and then observe the behavior of IEC 61850 IEDs.
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This 5-day in-person training course from Monday, January 13 to 17, 2025 covers everything in the Tier I and Tier II training, including classroom and hands-on workshop sessions. The Sampled Values, GOOSE and MMS workshops are completed by participants after the corresponding classroom sessions each day. In these workshop sessions, participants configure real IEDs, including process bus, from a wide range of major vendors in our Mobile Digital Substation.
Course Cost: $5,000.00
