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Partnership project holds successful workshop with videos and presentations now available to view online

Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and hydroelectricity are a key tool to decarbonise Europe’s energy grid, reducing the emissions that cause climate change. However, these renewable sources are more variable than fossil fuel-burning power stations and so there is an increased need for real-time monitoring and control of energy networks. To achieve this real-time control, analogue instruments that are coming to the end of their lives are more and more often replaced with digital substation technology.

Building on the work of EMPIR project FutureGrid II (17IND06), Partnership project ‘Metrology for digital substation instrumentation’ (21NRM02, Digital-IT) is developing reference systems for the calibration of digital substation equipment. This includes new hardware and software for sampling, data processing methods and traceable communication networks to transfer timing data.

Successful workshop

The project held a joint workshop titled ‘Measurements and metering in digital substations’ with industry-funded project DigIT.

The online workshop, which saw 85 attendees, covered topics including digital substation measurements, stand-alone merging unit (SAMU) performance and precision time protocol (PTP) calibrations. It also featured a review of results from both projects as well as contributions from stakeholders.

Selected presentations and recordings from the workshop are available to view online, covering:

• Digital substation measurements
• Digital-IT
• An overview of the DigIT project
• Evaluation of metering
• SAMU performance
• Meter calibration
• PTPv2 traceability
• SV software

“I was positively surprised by the interest to our workshop and projects,” says project coordinator Jari Hällström (VTT MIKES). “We are also happy that we can provide precision measurement solutions for digital substation instrumentation manufacturers and users.”

This Metrology Partnership project has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed by the European Union Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and from the Participating States.

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