An Update on the Spreadsheet Electrical Reliability Model

Over the past 12 years, a number of changes and enhancements have been made to the Spreadsheet Electrical Reliability Model that was introduced at the 1994 IEEE Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) Conference. Several papers have been written since then, addressing some of the changes. Papers have also been written related to the application of the spreadsheet methodology to the IEEE Gold Book standard network. This paper will briefly review the history of the Spreadsheet Modeling technique and review features of the latest version. This paper discusses the impact that common causes can have on industrial electrical system reliability analysis. This paper also introduces an alternate network for evaluating reliability analysis methodologies. As in the past, the latest version of the Spreadsheet Model will be made available as free shareware on the PCIC web site.