Abstract
Conference Title: 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) Conference Start Date: 2018, Sept. 9 Conference End Date: 2018, Sept. 11 Conference Location: Fargo, ND, USA The introduction of distributed generators (DG) and other emerging technologies such as electric vehicle charging (EV) to distribution networks have influenced the philosophy of operating the distribution networks. With the presence of these technologies, the nature of the distribution networks are changing from being passive networks to active networks and in order to accommodate these changes, the way of controlling and operating distribution systems must be reconfigured and distribution system state estimation based real-time model is needed for a secure control and protection in distribution systems. The objective of this paper is to present a comparison between the branch-current based distribution system state estimation in polar and rectangular coordinates. Moreover, the inclusion of the synchronized measurements, obtained from Micro-PMU is discussed. The methods are conducted on the IEEE-13 bus distribution test feeder and results are discussed.