The augmentation in electricity demand, power system privatization as well as efficacy of renewable resources has paved the way for power system companies and researchers to exploit the field of grid connected distributed generation (DG) and its issues, islanding being a dominant one. Several research works have been conducted to mitigate the issues of islanding detection (ID). In context of th...

The phenomenon of feeding loads from any distributed generators (DGs) with a total disconnection utility grid at the point common coupling is called Islanding. DGs are usually independently controlled. Hence, when islanding problem occurs, electric loses control and supervision over that section power grid. Furthermore, prolonged can prevent reconnection to may cause damage due voltage frequenc...

Constantly growing distributed energy generation based on renewable sources creates a number of new challenges for electrical power system operation. One the is islanding detection. Unintentional islanding, which can cause health and safety hazards personnel, currently being experienced by consumers/prosumers especially in case photovoltaic inverters. This work presents detection method synchro...

This thesis presents a method of detecting electrical islands in low voltage distributed generator networks by measuring negative sequence impedance differences between islanded and utility connections. Extensive testing was conducted on a commercial building and 25 kV distributed generator fed network by measuring naturally occurring and artificially injected negative sequence components. Simi...

Recently, a new islanding detection scheme based on power electronic signaling technology has been proposed in the literature. By broadcasting a signal on the distribution feeders from the substation to the down-stream DGs, the absence of the signal at the DG site will be a sign of islanding. The scheme is more reliable than regular local detection techniques while it costs much less than trans...

Due to the increasing need to distributed energy resources in power systems, their problems should be studied. One of the main problem of distributed energy resources is unplanned islanding. The unplanned islanding has some dangers to the power systems and the repairman which are works with the incorrect devices. In this paper, a passive local method is proposed. The proposed method is based on...