North American Transmission Availability trends

Author

Lauby, M.G. ; Bian, J.J. ; Slone, A.D.

Author_Institution

North American Electr. Reliability Corp. (NERC), Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the North American transmission availability trends. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) objectively analyzed the state of transmission availability and reliability through mining 2008-2011 outage data in NERC´s Transmission Availability Data System (TADS). This analysis not only provided an industry reference for historical transmission availability, it also offered analytical insights towards top controllable initiating causes to transmission outages. The conclusions can be used to develop a risk model that links reliability impact to common initiating events and deploy resource-efficient and effective solutions that result in outage reduction.

Keywords

power system simulation; power transmission reliability; North American electric reliability corporation; North American transmission availability trends; mining 2008-2011 outage data; risk model; transmission availability data system; Availability; Market research; Measurement; Power system reliability; Substations; Initiating Causes; Performance Analysis; Risk Model; Transmission Availability Data System (TADS); Transmission Availability Trends; Transmission Outages; Unpaired Poisson Statistical Method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6673006

Filename

6673006