Last week I attended the 10^th Protection, Automation, and Control (PAC) World conference in Glasgow, Scotland. It was a great opportunity to meet academic peers and professionals from utilities, manufacturers, and consultancies working on power systems protection, automation, and control around the world.

We had interesting discussions about the challenges, requirements, and solutions for the protection, automation, and control of the smart grids of the future, learned from each other, and (last, but not least) had fun! In other words, mission accomplished!

I also received some feedback after I had presented my paper titled “Detection of Voltage Fluctuations in Low Voltage Power Distribution Networks with Principal Component Analysis”. Without a doubt, the contributions from the PAC World community were very insightful and will benefit my upcoming works on strategies for fault detection, location, and diagnosis, self-healing, and grid reconfiguration within the project RESOLVD, as well as the completion of my thesis!