IEC 61400-25

Principles, topologies and

applications

Erik San Telmo [email protected]

 IEC 61400-25 base concepts

WHAT DOES IT MEAN IEC 61400-25?

USER
IEC 61400-25 defines: applications
APP1 APP2 APP3

An information model for INFORMATION

IEC61400-25
wind power plant MODEL
components. Data is accessed
by its reference. INFORMATION
SERVICES

The services provided by the
IEC 61400-25 compliant CP1 CP2 CP3 CP4 CP5
devices.

Different communication
NETWORK
profiles (CP) for data
interchange.
 IEC 61400-25 base concepts

UNIFIED INFORMATION MODEL

Any IEC 61400-25 client shall be able to understand any IEC 61400-
25 server (for example, a wind turbine or wind power plant proxy)
independently of the manufacturer or provider.

Data semantic is predefined. Two different systems must provide the

same data with the same naming (data reference) and structure.

Question: Where is this unified model defined?

Answer: In the document IEC 61400-25-2.
IEC 61400-25 base concepts

Without IEC 61400-25: the information is published in different formats.

Wind speed = modbus OPC data

holding register 112 WT2.Windspeed [R4]
expressed in m/s 10-2 directly in m/s

WTA WTB

With IEC 61400-25: the same information is published in the same format.

Wind speed = Wind speed =

WTAXX/WNAC1.MX.WdSpd WTBYY/WNAC1.MX.WdSpd

WTA WTB
 IEC 61400-25 base concepts

UNIFIED SERVICE MODEL

Any IEC 61400-25 client shall be able to get access to any IEC
61400-25 server (with the appropriate access rights, of course).

Services are divided in groups:

Association services

Self-description services

Data access

Control

Reporting (event-driven communication)

Logging

Question: Where is this information exchange model defined?

Answer: In the document IEC 61400-25-3.
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COMMUNICATION PROFILES

Different communication requirements need different communication
profiles.

MMS

Web services

OPC XML-DA

DNP3

IEC 60870-5-101/104

Question: Where are these profiles described?

Answer: In the document IEC 61400-25-4.
 IEC 61400-25 base concepts

NO CONSTRAINTS ON TOPOLOGIES
S IEC 61400-25 server

C IEC 61400-25 client

SCADA CONTROL CENTER CONTROL CENTER

C
S C C C
S
Pitch S
controller
S

C
S Main S
controller
IEC 61400-25 actors & users

Wind turbine manufacturers.

Wind power plant operators
Wind power plant maintainers
Electric system operators

Automatic control of wind farm

CMS (Condition Monitoring system)
IEC 61400-25 INSIDE THE WIND POWER PLANT
ARCH. 1 IEC 61400-25 inside the wind power plant Each client
may access to
different data
on the servers
CONDITION
LOCAL SCADA SYSTEM MONITORING SYSTEM AUTOMATIC WIND FARM
CONTROLLER

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CLIENT CLIENT CLIENT

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SERVER SERVER SERVER SERVER SERVER
ARCH. 1 IEC 61400-25 inside the wind power plant

WNAC Nacelle
Real time information
WROT Rotor
Statistical information
WGEN Generator
Alarms
WCNV Converter

WTRF Transformer
Set-points
WTRM Transmission
Commands and acknowledges
WYAW Yawing

WTUR Wind turbine status and energy production info

WALM Alarms
ARCH. 1+ IEC 61400-25 and IEC 61850 inside the wind
power plant

One SCADA
system for all
the
components
in the wind
power plant
including the
substation
IEC 61400-25 OUTSIDE THE WIND POWER PLANT
ARCH. 2 IEC61400-25 system to control center
communication without gateway or data concentrator

Direct access
from the
control center
to the wind
turbines
across the
corporate
network
 ARCH 3 IEC61400-25 system to control center
communication using gateway

Access to the
wind turbine
using a
gateway to
the control
center
protocol

Take a look at NIST PAP 12!!!

ARCH 3 IEC61400-25 system to control center
communication using data concentrator

Access to a data
CONTROL CENTER
concentrator on
IEC 61400-25
CLIENT
the wind farm to
IEC 61400-25 traffic
reduce the
Corporate
network
number of
connections from
IEC 61400-25
LOCAL SCADA SYSTEM
SERVER the control center
IEC 61400-25
CLIENT

IEC 61400-25
CLIENT

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SERVER SERVER SERVER SERVER SERVER
ARCH 3 IEC61400-25 system to control center
communication using data concentrator

WNAC
WROT
WGEN
WCNV
WTRF
WTRM
WTUR1
Turbine basic info
WYAW
WTUR2 Real time information
WTUR
WALM Statistical information
WNAC Alarms
WROT
Active power control
WGEN WAPC
WCNV
WTRF
WTRM
WRPC Reactive power control Set-points
WYAW
Commands
WTUR
WALM

The wind farm may be consider as one energy generation

unit.
Control the energy production using WAPC and WRPC.
IEC 61400-25 INSIDE THE CONTROL CENTER
 ARCH 4 Control center with different protocols example A

A proprietary
Applications format database
EMS DMS
and different
PROPIETARY FORMAT DATABASE
protocols imply
Data conversion data conversions
Data conversion Data conversion
and translation
Front-end
Protocol Front-end A
IEC 61400-25
interpretation

Protocol A Protocol A
IEC 61400-25
 ARCH 5 Control center with different protocols example B

A standard
Applications naming
EMS DMS
convention
IEC 61400-25 DATABASE
reduce the need
Data conversion on data
and translation translators
Front-end
Protocol IEC 61400-25
interpretation

GATEWAY GATEWAY

Protocol A Protocol A IEC 61400-25

USE61400-25 Looking forward to the wind integration

Erik San Telmo [email protected]