Substation Communication Development

Mar 2013

Electricity Distribution

Reference:

Status: Live

Start Date: Mar 2013

End Date: Unknown

Funding Licencee(s): Western Power Distribution

Contact: WPD Future Networks Team (01332 827446)

Funding Mechanism Innovation Funding Incentive

Research Area: None

Core Technology(ies): High Voltage Technology

Estimated Expenditure: £555,000.00

Introduction: Demonstration of future communication options for control, system protection, data acquisition and communication to distributed intelligent electronic devices at operational sites.

Objectives: An extensive communications infrastructure has been developed over time to provide critical operational communications and as a result these use a wide range of different technologies with provision from a variety of sources.

Some of these technologies are reaching the end of their useful life and at least one of our service providers has announced that they wish to withdraw some of their services by 2011 and replace it with a Next Generation Networks (NGN), which will not support the current specific requirements of the connected equipment.