Title :
Assessing the value of distribution infrastructure replacement
Author :
Roldan, Zoilo S. ; Chien, Shan Heng ; Lee, Roger J.
Author_Institution :
T&D Div., Asset Manage. & Syst. Reliability Group, Southern California Edison Co., Santa Ana, CA
Abstract :
Many utilities have defaulted to a policy of run-to-failure as their strategy for managing distribution assets by postponing initiation of a program of preemptive infrastructure replacement. What has caused utilities to do what they instinctively believe is short-sighted likely includes their inability to clearly predict such a program´s return on investment. Southern California Edison (SCE) has developed a method of performing long-term probabilistic forecasts of the reliability of its distribution system as a function of investments in preemptive infrastructure replacement, i.e., a method to calculate the payback.
Keywords :
power distribution reliability; distribution assets; distribution infrastructure replacement; distribution system reliability; long-term probabilistic forecasts; Asset management; Cable insulation; Communication cables; Data engineering; Databases; Design engineering; Investments; Power cable insulation; Power cables; Reliability engineering; failure probability; probabilistic forecast; reliability management; reliability modeling; risk analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2009. PSCE '09. IEEE/PES
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3810-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3811-2
DOI :
10.1109/PSCE.2009.4840059
