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A survey of North American electric utility concerns regarding nonsinusoidal waveforms

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
OSTI ID:218287
Fifty utilities in the US and Canada responded to a questionnaire survey regarding concerns about nonsinusoidal waveforms in the electric distribution network. Responses regarding instrumentation, definitions, rates, and trends are presented and discussed. The main objectives of the survey were: determine the instrumentation (principle and construction) used at present to measure active and reactive power and energy; evaluate utility engineers` awareness of the limitations of existing definitions of reactive power, distortion power, apparent power, etc.; evaluate utility engineers` awareness of errors and malfunctions of instrumentation operating in a non-sinusoidal environment; identify how utility customers are charged; identify future trends in metering that are anticipated by utility engineers; and pave the road toward practical definitions of the quantities that should be measured for revenue, voltage profile control, and power quality.
OSTI ID:
218287
Report Number(s):
CONF-950103--
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 0885-8977; ISSN ITPDE5
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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