Medium voltage optical fiber composite power cable system for Smart Grid

Failure of power distribution network causes significant disaster due to its concentrated load and great complexity. In order to prevent failures of power distribution network, power distribution network equipment is getting intelligent to monitor and diagnose a power distribution network in real time. However deployment of intelligent equipments costs a lot, because supplementary communication network is required for communication between intelligent equipments. In order to reduce the cost occurred by additional communication network, the cable system which will be introduced in this paper enables power transmission and data communication without additional communication network by installing optical fiber composite power cable. Furthermore it helps efficient management of power distribution network as total integrated solution which monitors, diagnoses and controls the network.