Title :
Calculation of outage costs for maintenance purposes in medium voltage networks
Author :
Buhler, Jochen ; Krontiris, Thanos ; Balzer, Gerd
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electr. Power & Energy, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents a simulation model used to determine the importance of every single asset in a given medium voltage network. Each asset is ranked on the basis of the outage costs caused by its failure. In this way, sensitive areas in the grid can be detected and maintenance of the net can be organized in such a way as to maximize the cost-profit rate.
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; power grids; power system economics; cost-profit rate; medium voltage networks; power grid; simulation model; Cost function; Failure analysis; Humans; Low voltage; Macroeconomics; Mathematical model; Medium voltage; Network topology; Power grids; Satellites;
Conference_Titel :
MELECON 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference
Conference_Location :
Valletta
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5793-9
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476313
