Plan Section

Section 1.

Development, engineering, adjustment and use of P&A at the digital substation: trials and practical results.


  • The most efficient technologies and the most overestimated technologies.
  • Application of technologies that extend the "life cycle" of P&A at a digital substation.
  • Is it critical that the P&A technologies are lagging behind the development l of the IT technologies in the era of global digitalization?
  • Can type-design solution be considered as a barrier to the P&A development?
  • Assessment and performance monitoring methodology of "digital" solutions.
  • Practical results of P&A development and implementation at the digital substation - an insight from the future.
Section 2.

Development prospects and use of the IEC 61850 standard.
  • Blind spots and issues requiring additional standardization.
  • Evaluation of the provisions of the Standard applicability in practice - what is broadly used and what is out of practice?
  • Standard’s areas of development.
Section 3.

Cybersecurity - a driver or a barrier to the development?









Round table

Challenges, experience in the development and implementation of digital substations.

  • New information security technologies:
  • Embedded in the P&A devices solutions for the information security .
  • Architecture of сomplex solutions to provide information security at the power facilities.
  • Management of the software and hardware complex for information security at the power facilities.
  • Assessment of the information security solutions. .
  • Development of normative and legislative frameworks for information security.


  • What are the goals?
  • What are we doing to achieve the goals?
  • How do we control the results?
  • What do we obtain in practice?
  • Are any corrective measures needed?
Section 4.

Use of PMUs to improve the efficiency of the electric power system.
  • Development of WAM technology is a factor to improve the efficiency of the electric power system. New opportunities of monitoring and management systems based on WAM technology.
  • Data quality - as a reason for limiting the use of PMUs in the management systems.
  • Integration of WAMS and digital substation technologies.
  • Examples of using WAM technology in:
  • Exploitation of the electric power facilities.
  • Monitoring and management of the electric power system.

Section 5.

Conceptual issues of the P&A technologies development.
  • New architectures of the P&A system.
  • New trends that influence the development of the &PA technologies (Internet of Things, Internet of Energy etc).
  • Operational and accident-prevention control technologies.
  • New information technologies in the P&A agenda.
  • New data transmission protocols.
  • Use of artificial intelligence methods.
Section 6.

P&A of distribution networks with renewable energy sources and energy storage systems.

  • Technological features of the operating modes of distribution networks with renewable energy sources and energy storage systems. Emergency parameters estimation of fast transients in power systems; and operational issues.
  • Technical requirements of distribution networks for the P&A system:
  • Special features of protection systems in networks with heterogeneous energy sources.
  • Principles of construction and technical solutions of automatic control devices in microgrids.
  • P&A of isolated power districts with renewable energy sources and energy storage systems.
  • New solutions for P&A.
  • Development of the regulatory framework for P&A (normative legal acts, normative technical documents) of distribution networks with renewable energy sources and energy storage.
Section 7.

P&A reliability and human factor influence.





Round table

P&A reliability and human factor influence.

  • Reliability assessment of P&A at the stages of development, engineering, and operations. What are the requirements? How to meet these requirements? What do we control and in what way?
  • Assessment of the human factor influence on the P&A reliability during the life cycle
  • Requirements for personnel training and organization of work to reduce the human factor influence.
  • Technological requirements to reduce the human factor influence.
  • Human factor in ensuring information security.

  • What are the requirements for the P&A reliability?
  • How is the fulfillment of the P&A reliability requirements controlled at different stages of the life cycle? (production, engineering, setting calculation, set-up, operations).
  • What is the influence of the human factor on the P&A reliability? What methods are used for assessment?
  • Is it necessary to do something and, if necessary, what are the measures to reduce the human factor influence the P&A reliability?