Field demonstrations of communication systems for distribution automation

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5160994

Rhyne, V T

The Electric Power Research Institute and the US Department of Energy have completed a jointly sponsored program to develop and test communication systems for distribution automation and load management. This program included three power-line-carrier projects, an ultra-high-frequency radio project, and a telephone project. For each project, a two-way (half-duplex) digital communication system was developed to perform such functions as fault location and isolation, distribution feeder switching, load control, time-of-day metering, remote meter reading, and equipment monitoring. Most of these demonstration projects were subject to hardware failures and schedule slippages, but when the data pertinent to the two-way communications performance of the operational portions of each system were examined, performance at or above an 80% success rate was measured in all projects. These results support the conclusion that each of these communications systems can satisfy utility requirements for distribution automation, load control and remote meter reading. Research will continue to determine if these technologies will be cost-effective.

• Research Organization: American Science and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Darco, Inc., Omaha, NE (USA); Texas A and M Univ., College Station (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5160994
• Report Number(s): DOE/NBB-0012; ON: DE82020113
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AUTOMATION
COMMUNICATIONS
CONTROL
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DATA
DATA TRANSMISSION
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
INFORMATION
LOAD MANAGEMENT
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NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE
POWER SYSTEMS
POWER TRANSMISSION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RADIO EQUIPMENT
RELIABILITY
REMOTE CONTROL
TELEPHONES