Real-time Simulation Study of Thermal-electrical Interactions in a CHP-based Microgrid

Jalal Dadkhah, Yizhong Hu, Yi Zhang

RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada

Short-Circuit Fault Detection and Protection Coordination in Inverter-Based Microgrids

Satoru AKAGI¹, Kazuhiro YOSHIYAMA¹, Shinya MORITA¹, Rei ITO¹, Ryohei KOIZUMI², Yoshinobu UEDA³

1: TEPCO Holdings, Inc.; 2: TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; 3: MEIDENSHA Corp.

Evaluation of distribution system protection for the “Serra da Saudade Microgrid” project

Henrique Parreiras Couto, Washington Rodrigues da Silva, Danilo Derick Silva Alves, Franz de Cassias Strobel, Fernando Henrique Dias Martins, William Alves de Souza, Marney Tadeu Antunes

Cemig Distribuição, Brazil

Isolated Microgrid Asset Sizing

Christopher Loo, Mark Mielke

ATCO Electric, Canada

OasisTwin: A Digital Twin Platform for Microgrid Resilient Operation

Minoo Shariat-Zadeh^1,2, Moein Manbachi², Mehrdad Moallem¹

1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Study on Microgrid Services for Colombian Power Grids: Potential and Advances

YEFERSON LOPEZ ALZATE, EDUARDO GOMEZ LUNA

Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Innovative Approaches to DER Integration in Brazilian Scenarium : Business Models and Microgrid Implementation

Thais Marzalek Blasi¹, Raphael Marzalek Blasi², Alexandre Rasi Aoki², Ciceli Martins Luiz³, Leonardo H. de M Leite⁴

1: OPAL-RT; 2: Federal University of Paraná; 3: CEMIG; 4: FITec

Autonomous Microgrid Resilience Enhancement Using Coordinated Preemptive Load Shedding and Battery Control

Saeedreza Jadidi, Xun Gong, Bo Cao, Reza Iravani, Minghui Xu, Ziming Chen

Huawei Montreal Research Centre, Canada

Enhancing live PV Production Estimates in Isolated Microgrids: A Sample Selection and Estimation Approach

Stefanos Kokkinelis, Charalampos Pappas, Despina Koukoula

Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A., Greece

Using Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) as a Dispatchable Load for Microgrids at a Community Scale

Lichen Wu, Liping Wang

University of Wyoming, United States of America

Resilient Microgrids by using Grid Forming Inverters with Rooftop Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

Kiran Singh, Pankaj SHARMA, Y K DIXIT, Naveen SRIVASTAVA

POWERGRID, India

EV Managed Charging Strategies for Transmission & Distribution Planning

Abdelrahman Ayad¹, François Bouffard¹, Graham Turk², Pablo Duenas-Martinez²

1: McGill University, Montrea, QC, Canada; 2: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

A Novel Deep-learning Model for Optimal Integrating of BESSs in Power Grids

HamidReza Mansouri, Mohammad Majid Jalali

Niroutrans Co., Iran, Islamic Republic of

Optimal sizing of battery energy storage in a grid-connected PV system: A comparative study of three optimisation algorithms

Zakaria Adam SOULEYMANE¹, Augustin MPANDA MABWE¹, Julien JEAN-VICTOR², Jérôme FORTIN¹, Prescillia DUPONT¹, Arnaud DUJANY²

1: UniLaSalle Amiens; 2: UniLaSalle Beauvais

Electric Thermal Storage as a Tool for Peak Shifting

Patrick Thomas Giles, Michael Ross

Yukon University, Canada

Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Tuning Controller Parameters of an Energy Storage System Using Real-time Simulations

Yasas Sanju Kandemulla Arachchige¹, Athula Rajapakse¹, Bagen Bagen²

1: University of Manitoba, Canada; 2: Manitoba Hydro, Canada

Implementation, Field Operation and Standardization Consideration for Use of Mobile Battery Energy Storage in Temporary Power Applications

Farid Katiraei¹, Naera Haghnazarian², Ayman Lpizra², Jennifer Hebsch², Philip Johnson³, Damir Novosel⁴

1: Innoversa, Canada; 2: Eversource Energy, USA; 3: Sunbelt Rental, USA; 4: Quanta Technology

Real-time hardware-in-the-loop testing of grid line monitoring and control apparatus for capacity enhancement of legacy electric grids

Arman Ghasaei¹, Ethan Lam¹, Alex Melancon², Christian Cossette²

1: EdgeTunePower Inc., Canada; 2: CO7 Technologies Inc., Canada

Improved Load Forecasting through Full and Partial Load Transfer Detection

Claire-Isabelle Carlier

Engineered Intelligence Inc., Canada

Fault Location Based on Shape Matching for Attenuated Traveling Waves in Overhead Line-Cable Hybrid Distribution Grids: A Field Experiment

Tatsuya Maesaka¹, Mutetsu Uchida¹, Shogo Takeuchi¹, Takumi Yoshioka¹, Takaya Anegawa¹, Tetsushi Ono², Masato Shiga²

1: Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan; 2: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Improving PV System Dynamics for Grid Code Compliance and Stability

Reda Yousef Ismail Issa, Omar Hikmat AL-Momani

jordan electric power company, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

An advanced control strategy based on current limiting to improve fault ride-through capability of three-phase photovoltaic grid-connected inverters

Ahmad Deeb Sawwas¹, Michel Normandeau², François Bouffard¹, Geza Joos¹

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec Research Institute Canada

Reactive Power Management under High Solar Photovoltaic Penetration in Distribution Networks

BAYAN SULEMAN AL AMRO

Electricity distribution company, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of

A Real-Time Study of Grid-Following and Grid-Forming Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Grids

Rahul Ranjan Jha, Bo Chen, Sri Raghavan Kothandaraman

Commonwealth Edison, United States of America

Assessing the Impact of Inverter-Based Resource Penetration and Control Strategies on Switching Overvoltage using EMT Simulations

Prashant Agnihotri, Amgad El-Deib, Hassan Fayaz

Stantec, Canada

Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Management for Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Redundant Centralized Control Scheme—A Case Study

G. M. Asim AKHTAR¹, Will ALLEN¹, Hammad SHOAIB¹, Perry ZHANG², Kyle JENSEN³

1: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., United States of America; 2: The City of Calagry; 3: Stantec

Design and Test of a Local Distributed Energy Resource Management System

Juncheng Wang¹, Michel Normandeau², Geza Joos¹, François Bouffard¹

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada

Evaluation of Introducing Reactive Power Injection from PV to the Distribution Grid

Takumi Yoshioka, Takaya Anegawa, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuriyama

Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan

Benefits and Challenges of an Advanced Architecture for the Control Room of the Future

Philippe Vié, Fabrice Robert, René Kerkmeester, diljeet singh, Mathieu CARLUER, Olivier Ebert

Capgemini, Canada

Acceleration of Time-series Distribution Grid Simulation: A Kernel-based Learning Approach

Zhihao Ma, Yanzhu Ye, Yang Bo

Hitachi America, United States of America

Guidelines for Solar Farms Energization and Connection to Distribution Grids

Mojtaba Rostaghi, Matthew Dubois, Anand Ambardar, Joseph Szwab, Jessie Bauer, Sean Carr

ComEd (An Exelon Company), United States of America

An effective Transactive Peer-to-Peer Model for Post-Attack Self-Healing Distributed Load Recovery

Hossein Chabok¹, Ali Moeini², Innocent Kamwa¹

1: Laval University, Quebec, Canada; 2: Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ), Varennes, Canada

Integration of rooftop PV in Distribution Network – Considerations and key challenges

Kiran Singh¹, Pankaj Sharma², Yugesh Kumar Dixit³, Naveen Srivastava⁴

1: POWERGRID, India; 2: POWERGRID, India; 3: POWERGRID, India; 4: POWERGRID, India

Blackbox Optimization for Loss Minimization in Distribution Power Networks using Feeder Reconfiguration

Christina G. Soldati¹, Sébastien Le Digabel¹, Antoine Lesage-Landry²

1: Polytechnique Montreal & GERAD, Canada; 2: Polytechnique Montreal, GERAD & Mila, Canada

Building Resilient Energy Systems: The Role of Hybrid DC-AC PHIL Test Bench in Microgrid Optimization and Sustainability

Mohammad Babaie¹, Nazanin Afrasiabi¹, Mojtaba Ayaz², K. S. Amitkumar¹, Chetan Midha¹, Stefan Voinea¹, Jean-Nicolas Paquin¹, Kamal Al-Haddad²

1: OPAL-RT Technologies, Canada; 2: École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada

Online Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Model of Low-Voltage Distributed Photovoltaic Operation

Hailong Zhang¹, Hongguang Dai², Kuixi Chen², Xiangyi Zhang¹, Mengdi Zhai¹

1: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, China, People's Republic of; 2: Beijing Zhixin Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd

Verifications of power supply method using LVDC distribution facilities

Takuya Sakamoto¹, Kento Yonezawa¹, Yasunori Oka¹, Masayuki Wakutani¹, Takumi Yoshioka¹, Takaya Anegawa¹, Kazuo Hisatomi², Yuya Kawachi², Kazuma Okamoto², Yasutaka Nishigaki², Kazuki Ogawa², Hiroyuki Ono²

1: Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan; 2: DAIHEN Corporation, Japan

Addressing Uncertainty in the Activation of Thermal Flexibility in Buildings

Felix Stegemerten, Martin Rätz, Dirk Müller

RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate

Distributed grid-aware control of air-conditioning demands using adaptive flexibility function

Nariman Mahdavi

CSIRO, Australia

Synergistic planning for optimal renewable energy portfolios in commercial and industrial buildings

Omid Aghapour, Akhtar Hussain, Innocent Kamwa, Hajar Abdolahinia

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Demand side flexibility from consumer side resources : Interoperability challenges and opportunities

Subbu Sethuvenkatraman¹, Tobias K.S. Ritschel², Henrik Madsen², Stephen White¹

1: CSIRO, Australia; 2: DTU

Buildings energy demand impact studies on the low-voltage distribution network of Montreal

Bilal Khan¹, Saifullah Shafiq², Hayat Ullah¹, Oriol Gavalda-Torrelas¹, Ursula Eicker¹

1: Concordia University Montreal, Canada; 2: The University of Queensland, Australia

Preventing Congestion in the Electricity Grid using OpenSTEF and the Power Grid Model

Yu Xiang^1,2, Peter Salemink¹, Frank Kreuwel¹, Jonas van den Bogaard¹, Daniel Marten van Es¹

1: Alliander, Netherlands, The; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The

Enhanced Modeling and Simulation of Distribution Feeders with Aggregated DERs

John Jorge Penaranda Velazco¹, Bala Venkatesh², Pedro Vasconcelos², Fernanda Trindade³

1: Hydro One, Canada; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 3: University of Campinas, Brazil

Integration of a Hydropower Plant into a Hydro-Québec northern islanded Network in Partnership with the local Community

Jonathan Brisebois, Mario Tremblay, Christian Bouchard, Steeve Beaulieu

Hydro-Quebec, Canada

Data Center Heat Recovery: A Techno-economic Study in Québec

Erfan Shafiee Roudbari, Ivan Kantor, Oriol Gavaldà, Ursula Eicker

Concordia University, Canada

Automatic Optimisation of Grid Operations through Demand Flexibility (DF) Programs

Sujata Guruji, Nilesh Kane, Karunakaran B, Salman Khan, Sarvesh Choradia

Tata Power Mumbai, India

Enabling adoption of offshore wind coupled with Green Hydrogen innovation

Kiran Singh¹, Pankaj SHARMA², Y K DIXIT³, Naveen SRIVASTAVA⁴

1: POWERGRID, India; 2: POWERGRID, India; 3: POWERGRID, India; 4: POWERGRID, India

Sector integration including hydrogen, EV, energy hubs, DER

Bhupinder Dhaka, Amandeep Kala

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India

Fault location for three-ended and mixed lines using synchronized measurements

Michael Kockott¹, OD Naidu², Neethu George², Sinisa Zubić³

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy, India; 3: Hitachi Energy, Sweden

Implementation of a Scalable Multi-Breaker Synchronization Scheme for Switching Stations in SaskPower

Ashutosh SINGH¹, Murtuza RUPAWALA¹, Tyson MAIER², Elemer DEMETER²

1: siemens canada limited, Canada; 2: Saskatchewan Power Corporation, Canada

Synchronised Data enabled detection and localisation of high impedance earth faults.

HUGH BORLAND¹, Tony Yip², Jan Zurowski³

1: Applied IQ, Ireland; 2: Applied IQ, UK; 3: Applied IQ, Poland

Use of Most Advanced Controlled Switching Techniques to Mitigate the Widespread Regional Impacts of a Power Transformer’s Energizations

Vincent Balvet¹, Leon Koricki², Janko Blatnik³

1: VIZIMAX Inc., Canada; 2: ELES, d.o.o., Slovenia; 3: VIZIMAX Inc., Slovenia

Advancing Wide Area Measurement Systems: Insights from Global Applications and Industry Trends

Liling Huang, Mark Adamiak

George Mason University, United States of America

Experiences in the commissioning of IEC 61850 digital busbar protection systems.

Atef Boukadi¹, Julder Uzcategui Silva¹, José MENDEZ¹, Jorge Escurra², Miguel Diaz², Hugo Tapia³

1: GE VERNOVA, Canada; 2: Engie Energia Peru; 3: Luz del Sur, S.A.A.

Two real cases of IEC-61850 user-profile implementation that improves sustainability while cutting project-times and costs: Enel Colombia (utility) and ISA (TSO).

Daniel Sánchez Castán¹, Paola Diaz², Cesar Hernandez¹

1: Ingenieros Emetres, Americas and Colombia; 2: Enel Colombia

Implementation of Non-Conventional Protection Automation and Control Schemes and IEC61850 communication System in the Expansion of a 500kV/138kV Substation for Transmission-Generation Application

Caren Ramos

EPCOR, Canada

Secondary Injection Testing in Merging Units Considering Low Power Instrument Transformer Technology

Paulo Sergio Pereira Junior², Antoni Furlani Rosa¹, Rodolfo Bernardino², Gustavo Salge², Cristiano Martins², André Luiz Rios¹, Lucas Varela¹

1: SecuControl Inc, United States of America; 2: Conprove Engenharia, Brazil

Challenges and their remedies for integration of edition-2 IEDs with lower edition SAS for health monitoring of grid assets.

Alok Nayan, Viplav C Reddy, Arvind Choudhary, Nishant Tyagi, Sunit Kumar Singh

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India

Future of Digital Substations: An Analysis from Conventional Systems to Centralized Protection and Virtualized PAC for Scalability and Efficiency

Paola Andrea Díaz-Vargas¹, Oscar Andres Tobar-Rosero², Germán Darío Rueda-Carvajal², Luis Fernando Quintero-Henao³, Héctor Andrés Florez-Celis², Daniel Sanchez-Castán⁴

1: Independent consultant; 2: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; 3: Enterprise Innovation; 4: IM3 - Ingenieros Emetres

FLISR and IEC 61850 GOOSE communications over an LTE/5G network using QoS and IP/MPLS: Meeting latency requirements for protection in the electrical distribution grid

Mauricio Subieta

Nokia, United States of America

Integrating PTP for IEC 61850 Process Bus Applications with Multi-Vendor Ethernet Switches

Curtis Ruff¹, Adam Rudd¹, Galina Antonova², Eric Chuang²

1: EPCOR; 2: Hitachi Energy

Synchronous Machine Protection of the Future for Large Hydro

Janos Peter Pattantyus, Denis Francesconi, Jean Raymond

Hydro-Québec, Canada

Essentials of Renewable Energy Protection and Monitoring

Daniel Ransom

GE Vernova, United States of America

Digital Substation Application Concepts for IBR Renewable Energy Plants

Wayne Hartmann, Jacobus Theron

GE Vernova, Canada

Comprehensive Protection Philosophy for BESS in Distribution Networks (33kV & 11kV) Supporting Weak Infeed, LVRT & HVRT Scenarios

Manvendra Singh Hada, Prayas Gupta

IndiGrid Limited, India

Resiliency of the Protection System for Capacitive Compensation Banks after a Real Event Learning

GERMAN GUTIERREZ

ISA INTERCOLOMBIA, Colombia

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Transmission Capacitor Banks for Training and Analysis

Genesis Alvarez, Robert Orndorff, Carlos Velez, Thomas Purcell, Robert Allison, Ibukunoluwa Korede

Dominion Energy, United States of America

Data Sources for AI Based Applications in Digital Substations

Alexander Apostolov

OMICRON electronics, United States of America

Real-Time Field Implementation of Adaptive Single-Phase Auto-Reclosing for EHV Transmission Lines: Lessons Learned.

SUNIL SURASHE, Akshay Sharma, Anand Dubey

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India

Time-domain based protection for transmission lines: secure and reliable solution for complex networks

Michael Kockott¹, Sinisa Zubić², Marcin Krakowski², OD Naidu³

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy, Sweden; 3: Hitachi Energy, India

Experience of piloting travelling wave protection relay on ATCO’s transmission line

Janak Acharya

ATCO, Canada

Transforming Differential Relay Communication by Several Strategies for Optimal Fiber Utilization and Reliability: Experiences From Recent Pilot Installation

Aman Khurana, Akshay Sharma, Ankit Vaish, Anand Dubey

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, India

Setting load encroachment and power swing blocking functions to comply with PRC-026-05

Michael Kockott, Bharadwaj Vasudevan

Hitachi Energy, United States of America

Bridging the gap between protection and planning for holistic analysis of transmission system performance

Ishwarjot Anand¹, Benny Varughese², Jorge Velez³, Saman Alaeddini¹, Mehrdad Chapariha¹, Gary Webster¹

1: Quanta Technology, Canada; 2: Consolidated Edison, USA; 3: Quanta Technology, USA

Design Criteria for the Monitoring and Protection Schemes of Submarine Cables

Ricardo Quijada¹, Luis Chavez²

1: AtkinsRéalis, Canada; 2: Independent Consultant

Mitigating Overreaching in Distance Relays and Addressing Mutual Coupling in Double-Circuit Transmission Lines

HARSHKUMAR SONI, Akshay Sharma, Pankaj JHA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA, India

Investigation of Operational Detection of Vegetation Contacts with Medium Voltage Conductors

Jeff Wischkaemper, B. Don Russell, Carl Benner, Karthick Manivannan

Texas A&M University, United States of America

User-centric Tools for Engineering, Commissioning and Operation Of Protection and Automation Devices

PAUL FRANCIS LOURENCO

SIEMENS CANADA LIMITED, Canada

Performance Based Protection Relay Commissioning

Weimin Wang, Tim Frazer, Brendan Janssen, Hasib Imam, Wade Milton, Kelly Weiler

Hydro One, Canada

Centralized Relays version and settings management

Akhilesh Chandrakar, Thanigaivel Murugan, Shweta Sawant, Siddhalingappa Dulange, Syam Sunder, Sneha Joshi, Vivekanandan Sivansankaran, Shyamjyoti Sarkar

Tata Power Company, India

Enhancing Digital Substation delivery: The Role of Laboratory Testing in IEC 61850 Projects

Marc-André Perron, Keven Henry, Tatiana Guerrero, Micah Lim

BBA Consultants

Hidden Failure Detection via Dynamic State Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Athanasios Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides

Georgia Tech, United States of America

Comparison of Processes for Testing, Commissioning and Maintenance Methods - Digital Versus Conventional Substations

Craig Wester, Mike Ramlachan

GE Vernova, Canada

Digital Protection learnings, challenges and improvements with Integrated FAT Setup, evaluation methodology & multiple solutions

Balaji Sethuraman¹, Dayanand Konduskar¹, Akhilesh Chandrakar¹, Murugan Thanigaivel¹, Vivekanandan Sivasankaran¹, Naganjaneyulu Sankarsetty², Ramakant Madane¹, Girish Jawale¹

1: THE TATA POWER COMPANY LIMITED, India; 2: TOSHIBA T&D TTDI