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Substation Configuration Language

configuration of electrical substation devices

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7632103 ↗
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System Configuration description Language formerly known as Substation Configuration description Language (SCL) is the language and representation format specified by IEC 61850 for the configuration of electrical substation devices.

This includes representation of modeled data and communication services specified by IEC 61850–7-X standard documents.

The complete SCL representation and its details are specified in IEC 61850-6 standard document.

It includes data representation for substation device entities; its associated functions represented as logical nodes, communication systems and capabilities.

The complete representation of data as SCL enhances the different devices of a substation to exchange the SCL files and to have a complete interoperability.

Parts of SCL files

An SCL file contains the following parts:

Header

This part is used to identify version and other basic details of an SCL configuration file.

Substation

This is the part dealing with the different entities of a substation including various devices, interconnections and other functionalities. The elements include power transformers, Voltage Levels, bays, General Equipment, conducting equipment like breakers. From the Substation part logical nodes that represent functionality related to the object in the Substation are referred.

Communication

This section deals with different communication points (access points) for accessing the different IEDs of the complete system.

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