IEC 61850 Edition 2.0 and Security Updates *

Power Industry is witnessing the IEC 61850 extensions to different domains like Hydro Power Plant, Distributed Energy Resources and Wind Power Plant apart from Substation. Users all over the world contributed to the technical issues in order to improve the protocol definition and make it better in terms of data exchange and configuration mechanisms. Edition 2.0 of IEC 61850 Standard has been released considering valid technical issues and future aspects of protocol usage. This