PAC World Americas Conference is shaping up to be one for the record books. Between the switch to completely virtual and a great lineup of presenters it will no doubt be both convenient and informative. Here is a list of accepted abstracts that may be of interest to PSCCC members and guests:
| # | Abstract Title* |
| PW01 | Merging Unit Based Solution for Full Switchyard Digitization |
| PW02 | Effects of Time Synchronization in Digital Substation Protection |
| PW03 | A Centralized Protection and Control System for Distribution Digital Substations |
| PW07 | Multivendor Process Bus Pilot Project with interoperability |
| PW08 | CPC Architectures for Small Distribution Substations |
| PW09 | Testing a Process Bus Based Multi Zone Protective Relay |
| PW10 | Reliable Protective Relay Coordination Considering Grid Dynamics |
| PW11 | Application aware visibility into Automation and Control Networks based on IEC 61850 |
| PW12 | Using Synchrophasors for a Wind farm response analysis on system disturbances in Brazilian Interconnected Power System |
| PW14 | Test Strategy for Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) Functions in a Fully Digital Substation Based on IEC 61850 Applications |
| PW15 | IEC Protocols and LWM2M complement each other in Smart Metering |
| PW16 | Application, Configuration, and Testing of GOOSE Cable Protection Scheme |
| PW17 | Power System Disturbances and IEC 61850-7-420 Operational Functions |
| PW18 | Automated Fault Location Analysis – Analytics Update III |
| PW19 | Testing & Commissioning of Digital Substation – IEC 61850-9-2 LE complied IEDs & Merging Units |
| PW20 | Communication Network Fault Analysis – When Things Go Wrong |
| PW21 | DER Feedback Loop Control System Using Distributed Communications |
| PW22 | Flattening the Grid |
| PW23 | Distribution Fault Location on Overhead Lines using Cloud technology |
| PW24 | Wideband Voltage Sensors For The Modern Substation |
| PW25 | Monitoring Power System Poles |
| PW26 | ARPA-E Project – National Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence on the Grid. |
| PW27 | Improving a Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) system in a digital IEC 61850 substation: The case of San Miguel Digital Substation |
| PW28 | Software Defined Networking Design Considerations |
| PW29 | A Review of the IEC 61850 Engineering Process |
| PW30 | Solving Performance and Cybersecurity Challenges in Substation and Industrial Networks With Software-Defined Networking |
| PW31 | Using Real‐Time Testing Tools to Baseline the Performance of OT Networks for High-Speed Communications |
| PW32 | Multi-Terminal Permissive Overreaching Transfer Trip (POTT) Scheme Using IEC 61850 GOOSE Messaging |
| PW33 | Practical Application of EM Mitigation for Substation Protection Systems |
| PW34 | New high-speed method to detect broken overhead conductors. |
| PW35 | A Virtual Synchronous Generator Approach to Resolving Microgrid and Battery Protection Challenges |
| PW36 | Functional Testing Non-Standardized IEC 61850 Features for Practical Applications |
| PW37 | Cost/Benefit Analysis for IEC 61850 implementation |
| PW38 | Developing Primary and Protection Model Maintenance Approach for NERC PRC-027 |
| PW39 | Improving Protection Applications for Modern Distribution Switchgear Systems |
| PW40 | Benefits of using IEC 61850 messages for testing conventional protection schemes |
| PW41 | Substation HMI design for Silicon Valley Power |
| PW42 | Benefit of Simultaneously Monitoring Cybersecurity and System Protection |
| PW43 | Cybersecurity Risk Management in the Supply Chain |
| PW44 | need title |
| PW45 | Experiences in design and commissioning of a secure substation network architecture |
| PW46 | Testing Automation and Control- Test Cases and Test Automation |
| PW47 | WASA and the Roadmap to WAMPAC at SDG&E |
| PW48 | Utilizing IEC61850 standard for the circuit based wide area distribution automation system |
| PW49 | Testing of transformer protection with time-domain inrush detection elements |
| PW50 | Using and Securing Routable GOOSE for Wide Area Protection in Centralized Remedial Action Systems. |
| PW51 | Power Sensor Considerations in Protection and Control Applications |
| PW52 | Benefits of using point-on-wave controller for a pumped-storage application |
ABOUT PAC World Americas Conference
Maybe some of you will ask: “Why do we need another conference?” Here is why: We are in the middle of the second decade of the twenty first century at a time of financial and energy crisis, loss of expertise in the field of electric power systems Protection, Automation and Control (PAC), dramatic changes in computing and communication technologies, as well as increased requirements for system stability and power quality. The wide spread penetration of alternative energy sources, the foreseeable availability of millions of electric vehicles introduce additional challenges for PAC professionals and move the industry towards the development and implementation of a “Smart Grid”. This all sounds very promising. But if you ask anyone “What is a Smart Grid?”, you will get as many answers as the people you asked. For some people it is automatic meter reading, for other it is distribution automation or the integration of distributed energy resources. Adaptive protection, dynamic stability estimation, synchrophasor applications and distributed PAC systems will pop-up in some of the answers. All these answers are correct. They are trees in the forest. But many times we, as specialists, focus so much on “our” tree, that we don’t see the forest.
The investments that are required to build a smart grid will be huge. However, they will be much larger if each domain in the electric power system builds their own piece of the smart grid without checking what can be shared with the other domains. That is why we decided that we need the PAC World conference. The other conferences are either too broad, or too narrow. They offer many parallel sessions that keep the experts from the different domains isolated in their own, well known environment. We will try to find the middle ground, the “razor’s edge”, by having for three days experts from around the Americas, as well as the rest of the world in the same conference hall at the Raleigh Convention Center. We will present to the attendees the challenges, the requirements and the solutions for the Smart Grid. We will look at the past, the present and the future. We will argue and challenge each other. We will find out what divides us and what unites us. And at the end we will learn that we can work together to optimize our industry efforts and build in the most efficient way the Smart Grid of the future.
The same way that the PAC World magazine is the forum for open discussions in the PAC industry, we want to make the PAC World Americas Conference the annual gathering of the people that are our community, where they can meet each other, learn from each other, become friends and as Rainer Aberer (the person that triggered this event) used to say “Have fun!”.