Benefits of Virtualizing Utility Protection & Control Systems at Salt River Proj

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Prithpal Khajuria (Intel), Anthony Sivesind (Salt River Project) and Russell Boyer (Dell Technologies)

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Utilities seeking Grid Modernization require new innovative approaches to the standard challenge of protection and control. There has been an evolution from electromechanical relays to Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), e.g. protection relays, to new virtualized Software Defined Systems – improving reliability, availability and manageability without compromising security. The many virtues in migrating to a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) significantly outweigh the limitations of deploying more dedicated hardware platforms throughout the data center. Salt River Project (SRP), as part of their Grid Innovation initiative, is exploring IED consolidation leading up to the virtualization of all traditional substation components – including Virtual Protective Relaying (VPR). The present state of protection, control, and communications device maintenance and upgrade metrics, as well as the changing grid topology, are driving the imperative for virtualization. Dell Technologies, teaming with VMware and Intel, have partnered with industry-leading Utilities like SRP to define the scope of these new platforms and develop an enterprise-grade edge SDDC from the data center to the substations. The vision of Intel’s Energy IoT team is to help Utilities modernize, and partners develop, solutions for utilities that manage traditional and next generation infrastructure in a seamless and secure way, ready to deal with all kinds of cyber and physical threats.
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