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Use Case Synchronized measurements at multiple locations throughout a distribution system during a fault can aid in the location of the fault and expedite service restoration. Background The vast majority of faults originate in distribution systems. The traditional means of locating a fault on a...

Use Case Conventional remote terminal unit (RTU) based automation approaches suffer from slow measurement update and lack of time-stamp values for precise comparison of state parameters at different locations . A time-synchronized control approach is more favorable for protection event analysis...

This report is a summary of work done principally in 2015 and 2016. The work began, at a low level of funding and activity, a year or so earlier, in an attempt to understand what exactly was being measured by a device known as a phasor measurement unit. This was important because I was a member of...