Configuration setting for wide area system protection

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of protection control equipment of an electrical power system, cause the protection control equipment to:

• receive synchrophasor measurements that comprise time-synchronized measurements of current or voltage at respective nodes in the electrical power system;
• based on the synchrophasor measurements, calculate a measurement differential of each of one or more protection zones defined according to a tabular data structure that indicates which nodes in the electrical power system are inter-connected and/or which nodes bound and/or belong to which protection zone;
• and
• for each of the one or more protection zones, control protection of the protection zone against faults, based on the measurement differential calculated for that protection zone.

Protection control equipment of an electrical power system, the protection control equipment comprising:

• processing circuitry configured to:
• receive synchrophasor measurements that comprise time-synchronized measurements of current or voltage at respective nodes in the electrical power system;
• based on the synchrophasor measurements, calculate a measurement differential of each of one or more protection zones defined according to a tabular data structure that indicates which nodes in the electrical power system are inter-connected and/or which nodes bound and/or belong to which protection zone;
• and
• for each of the one or more protection zones, control protection of the protection zone against faults, based on the measurement differential calculated for that protection zone.