Title :
Distribution automation to improve circuit reliability
Abstract :
In an effort to improve system reliability, CenterPoint Energy has implemented an extensive distribution circuit automation program. By strategically placing automated devices on circuits with poor reliability performance or high customer counts, CenterPoint has achieved impressive results. This paper will describe the devices and some of the configurations used in our automation program and discuss some of the results we have seen.
Keywords :
power distribution reliability; power engineering computing; CenterPoint Energy; circuit reliability; distribution automation; distribution circuit automation program; Automatic control; Circuit faults; Communication switching; Communication system control; Fault detection; Radio control; Radio transmitters; Reliability; Substation automation; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Protective Relay Engineers, 2004 57th Annual Conference for
Conference_Location :
College Station, TX, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8432-6
DOI :
10.1109/CPRE.2004.238415
