EC 3: PROTECTION AND CONTROL IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS
Chairman: Mr Dušan VUKOTIĆ, Power Distribution of Serbia Belgrade
1. Operation:
• Maintenance strategies and condition assessment.
• Workforce management tools and techniques to improve operation efficiency.
• Data demand, data management and documentation.
• Restoration strategies and crisis management.
• Occupational safety and health (OSH) activities, when performing work in power facilities.
2. Protection:
• The strategies during replacing SCADA systems, reconstruction of the protections and implementation of the substation automation systems.
• Impact of active networks on traditional protection and control systems.
• Protection simulation models, tools and new functions.
• Testing of protection relays, functions and systems.
• Post mortem analyses of faults and fault records.
3. Control:
• The automation of electric distribution networks.
• The coordination between TSO-DSO.
• The usage of energy application within electric utilities.
• Providing system services on distribution level.
• Voltage control in MV and LV grids.
4. Communication:
• The digitization of electric distribution networks.
• The usage of communication systems for protection and network operation.
• Security aspects of information access and information exchange.
• Interdependency of network control and communication infrastructure.
• Centralized management and monitoring of communication networks.