CHARACTERISTICS OF VOLTAGE IMBALANCE AND NEUTRAL CURRENT AND VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS IN MULTI-GROUNDED SYSTEMS

J. Acharya∗ and W. Xu∗

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