Planning for effective distribution

Volume

1

Issue

5

fYear

2003

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

62

Abstract

This article presents the future needs of the electric utility distribution planning function. The needs center on four areas: utilization of new information sources and information technology, new distribution planning methods, awareness and influence of the business and regulatory environment, and maintaining competence in distribution systems planning.

Keywords

information technology; legislation; power distribution economics; power distribution planning; power distribution reliability; risk management; SCADA; business environment awareness; competence; computerized outage management systems; customer choice; data monitoring; distribution planning; distribution planning methods; economic evaluation methods; electric utility; information technology; integrated utility IT environment; new information sources utilisation; performance-based regulation; predictive reliability methods; regulatory environment awareness; reliability-based planning; risk; value-based planning; Circuits; Environmental economics; Information technology; Power generation economics; Power industry; Power system planning; Process planning; Substations; Technology planning; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1540-7977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPAE.2003.1231692

Filename

1231692