Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is a data-rich environment with hundreds of data points ...

Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is or has the potential to be a data-rich environment, with ...

The industrial power sector is at a tipping point in 2026, where decades-old RS-232 communication standards are finally yielding to the demands of modern, Ethernet-based substation automation. Rather ...

NREL researchers have developed interoperable SCADA protocols for PV inverters. Two new sets of codes were conceived to enable legacy inverters, which are inverters that are not capable of providing ...

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a comprehensive system of hardware and software designed to enable organizations to control and monitor industrial processes. Widely use across ...

In October 2023, I wrote about what future SCADA systems should look like and some of their requirements. Not surprisingly, ...

The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...

In recent decades, the growing need for electric power has brought out the need to implement increasingly efficient and reliable automation and protection systems for electrical substations. The ...