
The Australian Protection Symposium was held 17-18 September 2024.
The2024 Protection Symposium was held this time in Sydney, Australia. The event venue was the Dockside at Darling Harbour. It was an in-person gathering of protection, automation, and control specialists predominantly from Australia, but also with participants from the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The goal was to discuss the challenges and developments in our field.

The symposium program included paper sessions and a panel session. The topics covered in the presented papers included advanced protection applications, IEC 61850 and its impact on protection and control, centralized protection and testing. The impact of the high penetration on inverter based distributed energy resources and methods and tools to resolve it was also covered.
The end of the first day of the program was a panel session focused on the Protection and Control in an Evolving Grid that triggered lively discussions on the topic.
The day concluded with networking and cocktails. During the coffee and lunch breaks the participants visited the exhibition area and discussed with the participating experts their new products and applications, as well as the latest developments in PAC technology.
The symposium was followed by a one-day technical workshop focused on overcoming testing challenges of the evolving grid.
