Future smart distribution grids will apart from a large number of measurement instruments, communication infrastructure, intelligent software etc., also require the appropriate techniques for analysis of the available signals. Various disturbances of different intensities constantly occur in real distribution systems. Many of them are just temporary while others cause the tripping of protection devices and the suspension of electricity supply. For distribution network operators, timely identification and adequate analysis of disturbances represent a very important segment of operation of electricity distribution networks. In this paper, the disturbance registered in the real distribution system of Bosnia and Herzegovina is analysed using four different time-frequency analysis techniques (Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT), Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT), Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD) and Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT)). The results show that all the applied techniques successfully identified the disturbance which is reflected in changes in frequency during the observed time period. These techniques could be suitable to be applied as a part of power quality monitoring systems, which provide the required measurement signals. The utilization of these techniques can provide distribution system operators with additional, a very important information about the distribution system.

Analysis of power consumption presents a very important issue for power distribution system operators. Some power system processes such as planning, demand forecasting, development, etc.., require a complete understanding of behaviour of power consumption for observed area , which requires appropriate techniques for analysis of available data. In this paper, two different time-frequency techniques are applied for analysis of hourly values of active an d reactive power consumption from one real power distribution transformer substation in urban part of Sarajevo city . Using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) with wavelet power spectrum and global wavelet spectrum some properties of analysed time series are determined. Then, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and Hilbert -Huang Transform (HHT) are applied for the analyses of the same time series and the results show ed that both applied approaches can provide very useful information about the behaviour of power consumption for observed time interval and different period (frequency) bands. Also it can be noticed that the results obtained by global wavelet spectrum and marginal Hilbert spectrum are very similar, thus confirming that both approaches could be used for identification of main properties of active and reactive power consumption time series .