Title :
Using outage data to improve reliability
Author_Institution :
ABB Distr. Inf. Syst., Raleigh, NC, USA
fDate :
4/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper illustrates how an electric utility can use a sophisticated outage management system (OMS) to improve power system performance by: establishing accurate failure rates and outage times; identifying specific areas that contribute to poor system reliability indexes; using actual data to improve the accuracy of predictive reliability studies; and establishing system performance without the use of costly monitoring systems
Keywords :
failure analysis; power system faults; power system reliability; electric utility; failure rates; outage data; outage management system; outage times; power system performance; power system reliability improvement; predictive reliability studies; reliability indexes; Assembly; Databases; Equipment failure; Frequency; History; Manufacturing; Monitoring; Reliability; System performance; Weather forecasting;
Journal_Title :
Computer Applications in Power, IEEE
