Bringing it all together
Information is the key to good decision-making in distribution system planning and management. Carefully selected, high-quality information leads to good decisions; too much or the wrong kind of information can lead to bad decisions. Unfortunately, new distribution automation systems can produce an information overload for utilities that do not have a strategy for selection and management of critical information. At the same time, installing new distribution management systems can mean adding yet another layer to an already complex environment. This paper discusses Southern California Edison`s (SCE`s) integration of distribution management functions into its new Outage Management System (OMS), which serves as the graphical focal point for information on the distribution system. Developed to meet a specific business need, OMS is the vehicle for the creation and maintenance of the feeder connectivity model that is the basis for integration of distribution system information. The paper describes how OMS {open_quotes}brings it all together{close_quotes} in a graphical-interface environment that supports operation planning, dispatching and distribution automation. The discussion includes project cost justification and projections of reduced operation and maintenance costs due to implementation of OMS. OMS delivers to the user (and to automated control systems) information that is organized according to applicability -- laying the foundation for true distribution automation, in which the system maintains and supports itself.
- OSTI ID:
- 192096
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940129--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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