Rural power quality

The authors present the results of a detailed power quality monitoring survey of 17 out of the 23 small rural industries surveyed (i.e., poultry broiler, poultry layer, beef feedlot, and pig (farrow to finish) rural industrial sites). The survey provides a knowledge base on rural power quality and the possible origins of power supply anomalies. The authors summarize the major power quality problems experienced at the various industrial sites and present some of the significant results of an across-Canada questionnaire survey on on-farm electrical power disturbances. The results of these surveys provide a basis for mitigating actions by the utilities and their rural industrial customers by enhancing their ability to identify the possible origins of power supply disturbances affecting the performance of electronic and electric equipment at the various farm industrial sites