High voltage and substation automation conference

IDC Technologies will hold the High Voltage & Substation Automation conference from 6-7 May in Townsville, Australia. The conference will be of interest to the electrical engineering community of Queensland, as regulators are demanding continual improvement in high voltage and substation design, maintenance, safety, power system protection, automation and communication. The overall objective of the event is to provide participants with hard-hitting useful electrical engineering know-how which they can apply directly in their workplaces.

This conference will cover the AS 2067-2008 HV standard, including recent changes, and the rapid development in substation automation, in particular the IEC 61850. The conference will also discuss problems that arise from HV equipment maintenance and how industry can overcome these issues through well-planned maintenance programs, adherence to standards/regulations and forward thinking.

Keynote speakers include Neville Gersch, Specialist Power Systems Engineer, Welcon Technologies and Daniel Moulds, Principal Engineer Control, Powerlink Queensland. The topics to be covered at the event include: industry best practice for HV relay protection testing; options for managing safety with elderly switchgear; HV switchgear modernisation - 3.3 to 60 kV; HV auditing; HV equipment; project case study: substation asset renewals and assessment; substation automation communication conformance testing; and role of substations in an electrical network, types and configurations of substations.