Towards a real-time fault identification and self-healing system in the distribution network

This paper aims to introduce a real-time fault identification and self-healing system (RTFISS), which has practically operated and covered more than 1600 square kilometers, for the 10kV distribution network. This system, located in Xiamen, a city in southern China, consists of three basic functions embedded in the Main Station of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), feeder automation (FA), fault dedication based on fault indicator (FDFl) and fault dedication based on transformer outage (FDTO).