Distribution Automation and Demand-Side Management Demonstration for Northern States Power. Final report
With increasing customer demands for reliable, competitively priced electric service, it has become essential for utilities to implement communications standards when deploying distribution automation systems. Northern States Power Company (NSP) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hosted a project based on EPRI`s Utility Communications Architecture (UCA{trademark}), a set of open international standards for data communications. This project focused on building a model communication system from the corporate computer network to field devices following the UCA protocol. In the process, the project showed how the UCA could fit within an existing communications operating environment concurrently with proprietary protocols and specialized vendor equipment. Included in this report are industry recommendations, technical profiles of automation components, UCA object and 3-layer implementation details, screen prints of the graphical user interfaces, and a discussion of successful aspects of the project. The document provides a useful reference, benchmark, and source of automation concepts for future distribution automation projects, especially those involving UCA research.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Northern States Power Co., Minneapolis, MN (United States); Cellnet Data Systems, San Carlos, CA (United States); Cycle Software, Cambridge, MA (United States); Energyline Systems, Berkeley, CA (United States); Power System Engineering, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 151757
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-105108
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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