The two projects aim to assess the operating performance of an IEC 61850-9-2 based protection scheme for a 400kV transmission system mesh corner and evaluate digital substation architecture design, undertake reliability/ availability analysis and undertake current transformer and voltage transformer merging unit performance tests.
Laboratory based research will evaluate issues relating to system reliability, security, dependability, interoperability and operating speed. The performance will be compared with that of a similar protection system implemented using traditional hard-wiring.