New control center for EPM in Medellin, Columbia

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · IEEE Computer Applications in Power; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/67.31825· OSTI ID:5652942

Gomez, H C ^[1]; Zadeh, K N; Meyer, R C ^[2]

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1. Dept. for Control Center of Empresas Publicas de Medellin (CO)
2. Zadeh Meyer Engineering Inc. (US)

The municipal electric utility of Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) in Medellin, Colombia, has completed the installation and testing of their new control center. These facilities, which include all the functions expected from a modern control center, were implemented through carefully monitored and executed project stages, which are described in this article. EPM generates and transmits 1400 MW of exclusively hydroelectric energy to their service territory of the city of Medellin and nine neighboring cities and 77 smaller cities. The EPM system load ranges from 400 MW to 1200 MW.

• OSTI ID: 5652942
• Journal Information: IEEE Computer Applications in Power; (USA), Vol. 2:3; ISSN 0895-0156
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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