The DPSP organisers welcome abstract submissions exploring, but not limited to, the following subject areas:
Evolving technologies and future networks
- New protection principles and algorithms
- New software solutions for protection systems
- Digital substations: protection aspects and architectures
- Application, design, and best practices for timing and synchronisation in protection systems
- Application, design, and cyber security for protection communications and integrated systems
- IED functional integration and impact on reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Roadmap for protection and control systems: centralised protection, virtualisation, digital twins, and new operating principles
- Protection-focused condition monitoring and situational awareness
- Protection Issues related to conventional and non-conventional instrument transformers: experience and lessons learned
- Protection implications for future networks with emerging technologies: heat pumps, electric vehicles, energy storage
- Impact of the energy crisis on protection technology evolution
- Protection of long-distance HVDC cable and/or overhead-line circuit connection.
Protection of networks
- High-voltage and ultra-high-voltage transmission networks.
- Distribution and low voltage networks.
- Offshore networks.
- Microgrids and islanded networks.
- DC networks and point-to-point DC links in AC networks.
- Converter-dominated networks with reduced fault current and lower inertia.
- Impact of grid codes and standards on network operation and protection.
- Impact of energy crisis on network operation and protection.
- Impact of weather on network operation and protection.
- Grid connection protection and control issues of distributed generation and large renewables.
- AI applications in protection and control systems.
- Data analytics, cloud, use of AI for protection relay testing, management, fault record analysis, fault detection, and setting optimisation.
Grid protection
- Asset protection.
- Protection-focused monitoring and diagnostics.
- Load shedding and load balancing schemes.
- Bus transfer schemes.
- Cyber security issues within protection.
Applications
- System integrity schemes, wide area monitoring, protection, and control, and Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU).
- Protection of generation systems and grid interconnections.
- Protection issues during black start and network restoration.
- Plant and substation protection.
- Protection of electric transport systems.
- Configuration management and maintenance and obsolescence strategies for protection systems Human aspects in protection and control.
- Commissioning and testing procedures and tools.
- DC applications in customers supply from renewables.