A research based on testing method for the whole substation cascaded in digital substation

Substation as an important component of the power grid, its safe and steady operation is crucial to the power grid. After building new substation or renovating the old ones, they needs to be tested to ensure its safe operation. The method, using relay protection tester to test the substation equipment nowadays, is not available to the whole cascade related connecting equipment, and the test work need a lot of manpower and material resources. To make up for all kinds of shortcomings when testing, this paper proposes a digital substation-oriented testing method for whole station concatenation, and established a testing software to test the whole cascaded substation, especially the method can realize closed-loop simulation test for whole station. In this method, the potential faults of digital substations can be predicted by using electromagnetic transient simulation to simulate various faults of substations, and the state of primary equipment can also be tested. The testing time can be shorten and the accuracy of testing can be improved, as well as, the safe and steady operation of substation equipment can be ensured by using the method proposed in this paper.