Protection Automation and Control Magazine

Protection Automation and Control Magazine pacworld first edition for summer of 2007 has been published. Spearheaded by Alex Apostolov, this magazine promises to be bring more active and open discussion about IEC 61850 and Protection, Automation and Control in general. The industry do indeed need an avenue for technical and expert discussions and opinion makers to bring out their points of view on the current and future challenges it faces.

In his editorial for the first edition, Alex talks about how the IEEE transactions used to have questions and comments on every paper and the authors comments on the same at the end of the paper. He mentions how behind the iron curtain a few decades back as a young protection engineer it gave Alex a global view and meaningful sense of these transactions and the context in which the paper needs to be seen. Now this is no longer a practice that IEEE transaction follows. As he rightly says in all the limited conferences on this subject globally, due to paucity of time and the busy schedule of the modern day world and its intent on accommodating as many things as possible in a very short time, there is no more open discussions and debate on most topics that concern the protection, automation and control engineers of today.

He mentions this to be one of the key objectives of pacworld. However, in addition to discussions and awareness building, it is also important to address some of the other burning facts like increasing academic and research interest in power systems such that more new students opt for these courses, as well as to involve and upgrade the technical knowledge and awareness of the main stream utility engineers and power system experts in the new technology developments in this space.

I believe these objectives to be a very noble and right intent and if this intent is kept alive and remains the driving force of the magazine in the days to come, it shall surely be a great point of convergence of thoughts and minds of the Industry and shall be a must read for all.

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