Communications architecture in modern distribution systems

Author

Roth, P.D.

Author_Institution

Cooper Power Syst., Franksville, WI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Distribution automation has become a rapidly growing segment in today´s electric utility industry. Deregulatory and competitive pressures have forced many utilities to consider value-added services to compete. Power quality and reliability of supply concerns have resulted in increased monitoring and control of the power system. Thus, distribution automation has become the primary way to accomplish value-added services and stay competitive in today´s power industry. Decentralized intelligence schemes provide an improvement in reliability. The industry standard performance indices prove the reliability advantages of the decentralized automation scheme

Keywords

data communication; power distribution control; power distribution reliability; power supply quality; power system measurement; communications architecture; competitive pressures; decentralized automation scheme; decentralized intelligence schemes; deregulatory pressures; distribution automation; distribution systems; electric utility industry; industry standard performance indices; power quality; power system control; power system monitoring; supply reliability; value-added services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Electricity Distribution, 2001. Part 1: Contributions. CIRED. 16th International Conference and Exhibition on (IEE Conf. Publ No. 482)

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-735-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20010793

Filename

942934