As 2016 comes to a close, we looked back at the discussions that took place among the International 61850 Process Bus User Task Force and we’re pleased with the outcome.  The Process Bus User Task Force was established in 2016, which is a vendor-free environment composed of 35 individuals, 19 utilities spread across 7 countries. […]

Tesco is pleased and honored to have been awarded the Canadian Innovative Pilot Project, which is a federal program that is managed under the Standards Council of Canada. This Innovative Pilot Project is geared towards creating new international standards, whereby our proposal was framed around extending the IEC 61850 standard to include Human Machine Interface […]

So it has been quite some time since our last post related to the International 61850 Process Bus User Task Force. We’re happy to report things have been progressing better than expected. We’re averaging a task force meeting every 2-3 weeks and have consistent representation from across the globe. To date, we have 30 members […]

Tesco is pleased to have completed another turnkey substation project, which was executed by the Tesco Group of companies. Tesco fulfilled the role of the general contractor, and were responsible for the overall engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning work tasks. Tesco delivered the green-field 72/20.8kV Substation Project – which is now servicing Evraz’s new spiral […]

Well, the IEC Smart Energy/Grid Meetings last week went without a glitch. Given the limited time, we covered a lot of ground. The bulk of the time was spent analyzing and ranking the results from a global survey, which sought the stakeholder’s priority regarding ~100 recommendations that pertain to the Smart Energy/Grid domain. We shortlisted […]

We had the pleasure of presenting Tesco’s paper on “The Standardization of the HMI Application: From Concept, To Reality, To Standards” at this year’s PACWorld International Conference in Slovenia. This paper proposes to extend IEC 61850 to include the HMI application, which is known to be on of the most engineering intensive applications within the […]

It was a productive (and exhausting) week at the IEC 61850 working group meetings in June/2016. Progress is being made on a number of parts of the standard, including the core parts (parts 6, 7 and 8), as well as the guideline documents (part 90). The SCL functional modelling, logic modelling, and functional acceptance testing […]

The IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) meetings concluded, and there were many interesting discussions that took place. The topics are too broad to mention, but notable ones are IEC 61850, Synchrophasors, Precision Time Protocols, Cyber Security, among many other protection related developments. Special thanks to all the technical experts, and

Tesco will be attending the annual Power Energy & Automation Conference next week, which is being hosted in Spokane Washington. Tesco is pleased to be conducting a course on IEC 61850 that will be composed of two parts. The first part will be spent explaining the fundamentals of IEC 61850 (get the juices flowing), and […]