Conference Agenda

Session

B5-4: Line Protection

Time:

Thursday, 02/Oct/2025:

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: Room 520B

Session Topics:

B5 Protection and automation

Presentations

1:30pm - 1:45pm

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

Michael Kockott¹, Sinisa Zubić², Marcin Krakowski², OD Naidu³

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

1:45pm - 2:00pm

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

Janak Acharya

ATCO, Canada

2:00pm - 2:15pm

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

2:15pm - 2:30pm

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

Michael Kockott, Bharadwaj Vasudevan

Hitachi Energy, United States of America

2:30pm - 2:45pm

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

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

2:45pm - 3:00pm

Design Criteria for the Monitoring and Protection Schemes of Submarine Cables

Ricardo Quijada¹, Luis Chavez²

¹AtkinsRéalis, Canada; ²Independent Consultant

3:00pm - 3:15pm

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

3:15pm - 3:30pm

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