The document discusses three papers presented at Session 3 of the Cired 2019 conference on Operation, Control and Protection of distribution grids.
The first paper from Austria discusses a guideline published by the Austrian association of electricity companies outlining trends in grid operation digitalization for distribution system operators focusing on security of supply, fault localization and restoration, customer interaction, and emergency management.
The second paper from Portugal presents a pilot project by a Portuguese DSO to develop IT solutions supporting low voltage network management and control in response to increasing distributed energy resources.
The third paper from Finland introduces using 5G wireless communication networks to enable advanced distributed protection solutions for power grids reliant on high-speed transmission of system quantities, providing a use case