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Especially at the transmission level, for each SO it is of utmost importance to ensure proper exchange of information with other SOs, mainly in case of contingencies. However, in the last years, two major events led to the splitting of Continental Europe into two synchronous areas. These events were caused by anomalous conditions which involved in one case the fault of a transmission line and in the other a fire outage in proximity to high-voltage lines. This work analyzes these two events from the measurement point of view. In particular, we discuss the possible impact of estimation uncertainty on control decisions based on measurements of instantaneous frequency. For this purpose, we simulate five different configurations of phasor measurement units (PMUs), as characterized by different signal models, processing routines, and estimation accuracy in the presence of off-nominal or dynamic conditions. The objective is to establish the accuracy of the frequency estimates in transient conditions, more specifically during the resynchronization of the Continental Europe area. Based on this knowledge, it is possible to set more suitable conditions for resynchronization operations: the idea is to consider not only the frequency deviation between the two areas but also to take into account the respective measurement uncertainty. As confirmed by the analysis of the two real-world scenarios, such an approach would allow for minimizing the probability of adverse or even dangerous conditions such as dampened oscillations and inter-modulations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23052705","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,2]],"date-time":"2023-03-02T02:10:59Z","timestamp":1677723059000},"page":"2705","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Impact of Estimation Uncertainty in PMU-Based Resynchronization of Continental Europe Synchronous Areas"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0701-1621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federica","family":"Costa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3407-2056","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lorenzo","family":"Peretto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5762-4354","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guglielmo","family":"Frigo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, 3003 Bern, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Milano, F., D\u00f6rfler, F., Hug, G., Hill, D.J., and Verbi\u010d, G. 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