Conference Agenda

Session

B5-1: Fault Location, autoreclosing, controlled switching, wide-area measurements

Time:

Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025:

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: Room 520B

Session Topics:

B5 Protection and automation

Presentations

1:30pm - 1:45pm

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

Michael Kockott¹, OD Naidu², Neethu George², Sinisa Zubić³

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

1:45pm - 2:00pm

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

Ashutosh SINGH¹, Murtuza RUPAWALA¹, Tyson MAIER², Elemer DEMETER²

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

2:00pm - 2:15pm

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

HUGH BORLAND¹, Tony Yip², Jan Zurowski³

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

2:15pm - 2:30pm

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

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

2:30pm - 2:45pm

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

Liling Huang, Mark Adamiak

George Mason University, United States of America

2:45pm - 3:00pm

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