Field demonstrations of communication systems for distribution automation. Volume 1. Program report. Final report

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5344497

Rhyne, V T ^[1]

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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; however, 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 at some time during 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: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5344497
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EL-1860-Vol.1; ON: DE82902097
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
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DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
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EXPERIMENTAL DATA
INFORMATION
LOAD MANAGEMENT
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NUMERICAL DATA
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