Attendees :

• Jos Zenner

• Nicolas Plantis

• Casper Tak

• Yarille Ortiz

• Aurélien Wataré

• Sander Jansen

• Maxime Pelletier

• Guilhermme Lisboa

• Alexander Lougovski

• David Auger

• Christophe Villemer

• Alex Thornton

• Karim Dioury

• Robert Raesemann

• Harura Umar

• Farshad H.

• Diego Buffa

Welcome and introduction to the Digital Substation SIG

Introduction and few updates from Jos Zenner :

LinkedIn Channel

The channel for Digital Substation SIG is now launched

Commercial Offering

The goal is to provide a web platform on LF website to publish commercial offers related to LF projects.
There are currently 6 companies that have submitted their offer (Savoir-faire Linux, Aveva, RTE-International, Sprinteins, Welotec, Dianomic).
The website should be available by the end of the year.
The online application form is still opened for new vendors.

LFE project updates

SEAPATH

On track to deliver the first official version of SEAPATH by the end of the year

CoMPASS

Ecosystem is growing (German TSO…)
New release is planned to fix security issues.

FledgePower

No update

Adoption of OpenSource for Digital Substation at RTE

Presentation from Maxime Pelletier from RTE.
Maxime went through the implementation of three projects within RTE.

SEAPATH

SEAPATH is used as a real-time hypervisor for 2 projects :

• R#Space - Industrial project launched in 2017. Virtualization for non-critical applications (HMI and Gateway). First implementation done in 2023.

• vPACS - R&D Project -> virtualization of critical functions such as Protections. The project will start in 2025 with a target system running in a lab by 2026

FledgePower

FledgePower is a multi-protocol translation gateway
Currently in use in several substations as a gateway to Transmission Control Center as well as Grid Asset Control Centers
After several PoC in 2023 and 2024, the industrial deployment is planned for 2025.

The purpose is to have the virtualised gateway running on SEAPATH.

CoMPAS

CoMPAS is an IEC61850 model configuration tool
Used in the context of new or refurbished substations, within R#Space project.
New tools to be released in 2025.
Maxime presented the different strategies with regards to CoMPAS, particularly in RTE or Alliander context.

Events

A few upcoming events have been highlighted. Attendees have mentionned if they would participate as an exhibitor or a visitor.

• SmartGrid Tech in Amsterdam - 18th to 20th March 2025

• Distributech in Dallas, US - 24th to 27th March 2025

• PAC World in Glasgow - 23rd to 26th June 2025

• CIGRE Norway - 12th to 15th May 2025

• CIGRE Montreal, CA - September

• CIGRE Japan - 30th June to 6th July 2025

• CIRED - Geneva - 16th to 19th June 2025

It has been mentionned by Alex that cost sharing could be considered when several companies are participating to an event to promote LFEnergy projects.

Next meeting - 14th January

Annual review of the SEAPATH project