As many utilities migrate from an analog world of protection, controls, monitoring and communications towards an all digital substation provides enormous benefits, such as:
- better flexibility
- improved resiliency
- increased reliability
- faster restoration, real-time capabilities
- more efficient operations for monitoring, controls and diagnostics
- allows ease for adding smart grid technologies
- paves the way for DER, energy storage, solar, wind, etc.
- demand response, energy efficiency, and others
read more at: https://www.tdworld.com/smart-grid/digital-substations-enhance-flexibility-times-change