CIGRE/CIRED JWG C4.112 – Power Quality Monitoring

Abstract

In a response to the renewed interest in power quality monitoring and recognising cross-boundary relevance of power quality monitoring, CIGRÉ Study Committee C4 and CIRED established, in late 2010, the Join Working Group (JWG) C4.112: “Guidelines for Power quality monitoring – measurement locations, processing and presentation of data”. The JWG started work in February 2011 with the aim to address the application aspects of power-quality monitoring, in particular what to measure, how to measure and how to handle recorded data. This paper presents some of the results of the JWG achieved between February 2011 and December 2013, provides recommendations with respect to power quality monitoring depending on identified objectives of monitoring and identifies the areas requiring further development and research in order to comprehensively address the issue of power quality monitoring in contemporary and future power networks.