Smart Substation Emulation for BPL Evaluation

Upgrading the Power Grid Functionalities with Broadband Power Line Communications: Basis, Applications, Current Trends and Challenges

“…In particular, BPL technologies are a key tool for the control and monitoring of secondary substations. They will also be essential in the distribution grid, in terms of PQ monitoring and distribution generation, especially considering the growth of solar and wind power sources and the progressive introduction of massive EV fleets, with hundreds of vehicles charging and discharging at the same time [200]. In addition, BPL technologies have a great potential towards the diagnosis of the power grid and security assurance.…”

Cable Monitoring Using Broadband Power Line Communication

“…Based on the methodology described in Section 5, individual sections of the entire topology of one substation and 25 transformer stations were measured (point-to-point measurements). The goal was to find the bottleneck bandwidth-the lowest value of the bandwidth of the entire measured route [4].…”

“…Nowadays, possible usage of BPL in smart grids is considered mainly for smart secondary substation applications [4,5]. The need to build a smart secondary substation arises from the requirements to more accurately control and monitor the energy system, especially for:…”

“…BPL is therefore considered for implementation in underground secondary substations, where the signal of mobile networks is not sufficient [4,6].…”

“…Besides the existing literature listed in Table 1, our cable diagnostics method uses network topological parameters, cable physical properties, and measured communication parameters of BPL networks. 3 Working, 4 Mathematical, 5 Laboratory tests, 6 Analysis, 7 Experiment, 8 Field tests.…”