Summary
Modern digital distance relays are incorporated with power swing blocking functions to avoid false operation during power swing. At the same time, it is also crucial to detect a fault correctly and quickly if occurs during power swing for unblocking and allowing the relay to trip the line. Detection of faults in thyristor controlled series capacitor (TCSC) compensated transmission lines during power swing is very challenging due to the nonlinear functioning of the thyristor controlled reactor and the metal‐oxide varistor protecting the series capacitor. This paper proposes a fault detection technique for TCSC compensated transmission lines during power swing using the generalized Teager‐Kaiser energy operator on the instantaneous current signal. The performance evaluation on a wide variety of test data generated on the modified WSCC three‐machine nine‐bus system and the modified IEEE 39‐bus New England system through EMTDC/PSCAD justify the efficacy of the proposed method.