Many utilities with overhead distribution lines make trade-offs when designing protection schemes. Ideally, the system minimizes fault energy by limiting fault duration in high-risk environments yet maximizes power quality and availability in urban areas. This presentation describes how these contrasting goals are achieved using wireless protection sensors to identify the faulted line section and instantly transmit fault messages to a recloser control. With this real-time information, the protection logic adapts its response for the faulted section, dynamically applying fast overcurrent elements with a truncated reclosing sequence to reduce fault energy in high-risk sections, using standard schemes elsewhere.Speaker Bio:Amy Sinclair received her BSc in electrical engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, in 1989. She joined Ontario Hydro in 1989, working for ten years as a protection and control engineer in the areas of design, operations, and project management. In 2000, she moved to consulting engineering as a project manager with a focus on protective relaying and substation design. Since December 2006, she has been employed with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. as a field application engineer, located in Chatham, Ontario. She has been registered as a Professional Engineer of Ontario since 2001.

Please save the date for the upcoming Training Series on Inverter-Based Resources – MOD & PRC Standard Compliance. Please note that this training is designed as a series; the completed sessions are prerequisites to attend the next sessions (i.e. if you are planning on attending session 3, and have not completed sessions 1 & 2, it is strongly recommended to watch the recordings).Series Schedule:Session 1 - Fundamentals: Thursday, March 13, 12:00 - 2:30 PM ETSession 2 - Control & Testing: Thursday, April 10, 12:00 - 2:30 PM ETSession 3 - PRC & Grid Forming IBR: Thursday, May 8, 12:00 - 2:30 PM ETSession 4 - Modeling: Thursday, June 12, 12:00 - 2:30 PM ET

The objective of this project is to develop the third of the series of digital station implementation guides.  It is envisioned that a series of at least three to five guides will be developed.  This third guide will be focused on the testing and maintenance of digital stations. This Guide and other future developed Guides will facilitate and expedite the knowledge transfer and will provide assistance for member utilities to develop their own specific digital station projects.You can access the deliverables at the following link: https://my.ceati.com/research/blt0b939e8d9184ecd7

The purpose of this call is to give participants the opportunity to provide additional comments regarding Eureka Power Solution’s proposal. In addition to the proposal, CEATI will also review and approve the project schedule. In preparation for the call, please see the items below:Please review and approve Eureka Power Solution's proposal found here.Confirm if you would like to be a project monitor for this project. The role includes reviewing project deliverables, offering comments to improve the deliverables and accepting the final report.