In the past decade, new communications schemes have been designed and retrofitted into the substations by the utilities to integrate data from relays and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and capitalize on the protection, control, metering, fault recording, communication functions available in digital devices. A modern power system is one of the largest complexes constructed and operated bo...

This paper considers the problem of measuring and analysing the frequency and phase angle variations which occur in a power system after a fault or disturbance. This is an important problem because the results of the analysis are used in implementing control strategies to avert generat,or cutout. Commonly, the frequency is not measured directly, but is inferred from the instantaneous power at t...

This paper presents a set of methods for estimating the renewable energy generation downstream of a measurement device using real-world measurements. First, we present a generation disaggregation scheme where the only information available for estimation is the micro-synchrophasor measurements obtained at the substation or feeder head. We then propose two strategies in which we use measurements...

THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES A NONTRADITIONAL approach to asset management in which operational and nonoperational data captured during power system events like faults and other disturbances are utilized for condition-based assessment of power system assets such as transmission lines, circuit breakers, and transformers. As an example, during faults on transmission lines, determining the location of th...

This article presents a new method for the estimation of active power losses based on “field” approach, i.e., theory electromagnetic field and propagation waves in dielectric medium. Electromagnetic are assumed to transmit energy from traction substation electric rolling stock through airspace inter-substation zone (i.e., not wires network) meet electrically conductive surfaces their way. The p...

This paper examines various aspects of the design process and subsequent field test measurements of a large and complex substation grounding system. The study and measurements show that soil layering and lead interference can have a significant impact on the appropriate test location that yields the exact substation ground impedance. Applying a specific percentage rule such as the 61.8% rule fo...

Abstract – This paper investigates overvoltages on the SF6 substation enclosure caused by the switching operation of the interrupter. The paper analyzes the amplitude and the overvoltage duration on the substation enclosure. Switching overvoltages take part in the everyday drive of HV substations and constitute an undesired phenomenon that may often, beside transient disturbances, lead to undes...

Using IEC 61850 standard would increase the reliability and availability of electricity network and put a huge impact on network automation. Even though much research works has been done in substation system reliability, there is a few works in automated substation control system reliability. This paper evaluates the reliability of substation automation system based IEC 61850 comparatively cons...