Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the [...]

Step voltage regulator (SVR) has been utilized in power distribution systems for decades. The induced arc from the conventional SVR tap change and the voltage instability[...]

It is estimated that close to 90% of outages in the electric power grid originate in the distribution system. Although the use of advanced metering infrastructure has inc[...]

Outages that occur in power distribution systems can seriously endanger system operation in different ways. In recent years, with the explosion in data gathering within t[...]

Models are valuable tools that can provide quantitative insight into a process or system, but must to be kept simple to remain meaningful. In this dissertation, three se[...]