Quality enhances reliability [power supplies]

Author

Sabin, D. Daniel ; Sundaram, Ashok

Author_Institution

Electrotek Concepts Inc., Knoxville, TN, USA

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

41

Abstract

As deregulation dawns, electric utilities are awakening to the fact that power quality counts with many a customer-and counts for a lot. Even now, the groundwork is being laid worldwide for a new type of service contract between a utility and its large industrial or commercial clients. In brief, the utility promises to supply its customer´s operations with power above a certain level of “quality”, and the customer promises to buy power from no-one else for as long as the contract lasts-a valuable concession now that retail wheeling has clients in those categories picking and choosing among suppliers in the electric power industry

Keywords

contracts; electrical faults; electricity supply industry; power supply quality; power system reliability; commercial clients; customers; deregulation; electric power industry; electric utilities; industrial clients; power quality; reliability; retail wheeling; service contract; Circuit faults; Computer industry; Conductors; Contracts; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Power industry; Power quality; Power system protection; Power system reliability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.482272

Filename

482272