Transition to Digital Substations with OMICRON

The decarbonization and decentralization of power systems can be accelerated through digitalization. Vice versa, digitalization of power systems is driven by decarbonization and decentralization.
Digital Substations enable the fast and reliable integration of distributed energy resources (DER) into power systems. Besides increasing safety, they boost sustainability and lower the carbon footprint. They also reduce TOTEX investment costs for your substations.

We can help you on your journey to digitizing your power systems. Our innovative testing tools quickly adopt Digital Substations in the power system industry.

With our solutions and expertise, we support you throughout a life cycle, starting with appropriate specifications, IED evaluation, testing and commissioning, to the operation and maintenance of your Digital Substations.

We actively participate in the development of international standards to ensure multi-vendor interoperability. With our efforts in moving on to Digital Substations, we want to encourage utilities across the world to share best practices and promote an industry dialogue.

Supporting the Entire Life Cycle of Digital Substations

The typical lifecycle of Digital Substations consists of three critical stages:

Engineering design
Testing and commissioning
Operation and maintenance

All three stages require new tools and processes for a seamless transition from conventional to digital practices – one of the main parts being the move from hard-wired communication to an Ethernet-based network.

The resilience of Digital Substations depends on specific sub-systems: protection and control systems, the communication network, and time synchronization sources.

We have been continuously developing innovative testing solutions for these systems. And we’ve built up vast global expertise in the field of Digital Substations. With this, our experts and solutions address all requirements for a seamless transition during all three stages of project delivery.

Our Application Services team works with utilities and service providers across the globe to share knowledge and best practices for Digital Substations and innovative digitalization projects.

Benefit from our expertise

Together with SP Energy Networks in Scotland, we collaborated with multiple vendors to test and commission Great Britain’s multi-vendor Digital Substation pilot project “FITNESS”.

The extensive knowledge we gained from this ground-breaking project currently flows into our services projects with some other utilities around the globe. During all these projects, our focus was on sharing best practices among utilities and increasing efficiency in Digital Substation implementation.

Your benefits

Selecting equipment that meets your specific requirements

When you embark on the Digital Substation journey, creating robust specifications is crucial. They ensure you obtain equipment and solutions that meet your precise requirements. We simplify this process by sharing industry experiences and our knowledge from various Digital Substation standards.

Efficient and customized testing

With years of experience in testing and troubleshooting Digital Substations, we help you get more out of your products. We work closely with you to create customized test procedures that cover all aspects of on- and off-site testing in Digital Substations.

Dialogue with other utilities

We are vendor-independent and motivated to promote Digital Substations within the industry. We want to enable communication among our customers. Benefit from best practices made by other Digital Substation utilities.

Up-to-date know-how

Our OMICRON Academy is well known for its extensive Digital Substation training courses. This also includes hands-on training at a mobile Digital Substation. We also provide customized training courses based on your own set-up and user scenarios.

Literature

DANEO-400-brochure-ENU.pdf (1 MB)

CM-Line-Catalog-ENU.pdf (5 MB)

StationScout Brochure (1 MB)

RelaySimTest-Brochure-ENU.pdf (4 MB)

Academy-Image-Brochure-ENU.pdf (763 KB)