“E Power Line Carrier Communication (PLCC) , Different communication technologies are being used for the transmission of information from one end to another depending on the feasibility and needs. Some include Ethernet cables, fiber optics, wireless transmission, satellite transmission, etc. A vast amount of information travels through the entire earth every day and it creates an essential need for a transmission medium that is not only fast but economically reasonable as well. One of the technologes that fit in the above stated criteria is PLCC. PLCC, Power Line Carrier Communication, is an approach to utilize the existing Power lines for the transmission of information. In today's world every house and building has properly installed electricity lines By using the existing AC power lines as a medium to transfer the information, it becomes easy to connect the houses with a high speed network access point without installing new wirings. Each end of transmission line is provided with identical PLCC equipment consisting of equipment: Transmitters and Receivers Hybrids and Filters Line Tuners Line Traps Power amplifier 6. Coupling capacitors Distance protection relay in relay panel at one en input from CT and CVT in line. The output of relay goes to m \d of the transmission line gets the jodem of PLCC.scheme eee CVE oe The output of PLCC goes to coupling capacitor and then to transmission ine and travels to another end where itis received through coupling capacitor and inputted to relay and control panel at that end. Application of PLCC PLCC in modern electrical power system substation is mainly used for following purpose: 1. Carrier protection relaying of transmission line so that: eninter trip command can be issued by relay due to tripping of circuit breaker at any one end. + To trip the line circuit breaker nearest to the fault, this is done by: a) Distance protection relay wl characteristics) b) Differential comparison method «) Phase comparison method 2, Station to station communication between operating personnel 3. Carrier telemetring, electrical quantities that are telemetered are kW, kVA, KVAR, Voltage and Power factor etc. Following methods are used for telemetring as well as telecontrol: + Simplex + Duplex + Multiplex. + Time division Multiplex. PLCC system has been implemented for providing communication connectivity from RTUs up to Sub-LDCs, The main considerations for using PLCC were low datarequirement between RTU & Sub-LDC, low cost, availability of systems In india and Extensive experience on the system with in the EPU. Single channel PLCC equipment uhere data is superimposed over speech channel is used. However, these system have limitation which include low capacity, low pe‘formance in long connections consisting of several hops and limited frequencies. Inspte of these problems, PLCC system are still the most preferred means where data traffic is low. Further, PLCS System has been extensively used by the EPUs for several decades and has gained reputation for its robustness and reliability for communication purposes. PIC system ‘Petes the EPU needs on Telecommunication facilities for speech and data such as telemetering, telecontrol and protection signalling Many factors will affect the reliability of a powerline carrier (PLC) channel ‘he goalis to geta signal level to the remote terminal that is above the sensitivity of The teceiver, and witha signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) well above the minimum, so that The secelver’can make a correct decision based on the information transmitted if both of these requirements are met then the PLC channel will be reliable. The factors affecting reliability are: ‘The amount of power out of the transmitter. ‘The type and number of hybrids required to parallel transmitters and receivers. ‘The type of line tuner applied The size of the coupling capacitor in terms of capacitance. ‘The type and size, in terms of inductance, of the line trap used. ‘The power line voltage and the physical configuration of the power line, The phase(s) to which the PLC signal is coupled. The length of the circuit and transpositions in the circuit, ‘The decoupling equipment at the receiving terminal (usually the same as the transmitting end). 10.The type of modulation used to transmit the information, and the type of demodulation circuits in the receiver. 11. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).