Analysis of the influence of weather factors on outages in Spanish distribution networks

Author

Barrera, V. ; Meléndez, J. ; Herraiz, S. ; Ferreira, A. ; Muñoz, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. & Applic., Univ. of Girona, Girona, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The origin of outages occurring in a power distribution network are highly related with the weather conditions existing during its apparition. Wind, rain and lightnings usually are the trigger causes of power network outages, hence the analysis of the relationship between weather and network outage information plays an important role for forecasting the impact of future weather conditions in the power distribution network. In this paper, weather information and distribution-network outages collected during three years are studied and statistically analyzed. From the analysis some useful relationships between weather conditions and network outages were extracted.

Keywords

distribution networks; meteorology; statistical analysis; Spanish distribution network; power distribution network outage; statistical analysis; weather condition; weather factor; weather information; weather outage; Correlation; Data analysis; Databases; Lightning; Wind speed; Power quality assessment; correlation analysis; distribution function; exploratory data analysis; lightnings; rainfall; statistical analysis; weather conditions; wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT Europe), 2011 2nd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Manchester

ISSN

2165-4816

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1422-1

Electronic_ISBN

2165-4816

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGTEurope.2011.6162784

Filename

6162784