Transactions section: Preprint of corresponding pages from the current annual AIEE transactions volume: Evaluation of electric distribution losses in terms of generating-station-capacity investment

ELECTRIC distribution losses affect the economy of a system in two ways: (a) by making it necessary to produce, over any period of time, in addition to the energy required by the load, the amount of energy absorbed by the losses during that same period, or “energy losses” (b) by requiring, at the time of the peak, the availability of a generating capacity which exceeds the simultaneous value of total load by the coincident amount of power absorbed by the distribution losses, or “power losses.” These two aspects both should be taken into consideration in planning a new electric system or in expanding an existing system.