Manually initiated fast load control

Author

Kafka, Richard J.

Author_Institution

Potomac Electr. Power Co., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1005

Abstract

Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) serves the District of Columbia and suburban areas of Maryland. It set a new peak load of 6140 MW on August 9, 2001. This presentation describes the load reduction programs of Pepco. The system marketed to residential customers consists of a radio controlled switch on air conditioners and a central control program to force a diversification of load control for those customers who choose the cycling program over the full reduction program. The radio controlled switch program is described here. Additionally, during emergency conditions, Pepco operates its voltage reduction program through a system of EMS controlled transformer taps with additional controls on certain distribution feeder equipment.

Keywords

air conditioning; load regulation; power system control; radio applications; telecontrol; voltage control; District of Columbia; EMS controlled transformer taps; Maryland; Pepco; Potomac Electric Power Company; air conditioners; central control program; cycling program; distribution feeder equipment control; emergency conditions; load control diversification; load reduction programs; radio controlled switch; residential customers; voltage reduction program; Centralized control; Communication system control; Control systems; Force control; Load flow control; Radio control; Radio transmitters; Signal generators; Switches; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7322-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESW.2002.985159

Filename

985159