Fault Location of Active Distribution Networks Based on the Golden Section Method

Table 2

Studied cases to validate the proposed method.

Test	Fault type	Description	Fault number
Fault resistance effect	All	Faults resistance between 0 Ω and 100 Ω	2178
Fault distance effect	Single-phase faults, phase-to-phase faults	Fault resistance: 0 Ω and 100 Ω	387
Load variation effect	Single-phase faults	Random load variation: 40–70%, 70–100%, 100–130%	129
DER penetration level	Single-phase faults	DER penetration level: 10%, 20%, 30%	129
Total faults			2823