Performance of a Fault Location Method in the Context of Modern Electric Power Distribution Systems

This work performs tests in a fault location method based on sparse voltage measurements considering modern scenarios of electric power distribution systems, in which a large penetration of distributed generation is expected. These kinds of technologies also could provide data that is currently not available for power distribution utilities and can support the fault location process. The technique used in this paper had a slight modification compared to the original one to enable the use of OpenDSS software for power flow calculation. This software facilitates the use of the fault location technique in practical application scenarios because it is a very robust software and largely used by power distribution utilities.

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