Making business sense of distribution automation systems:: The case of Eskom, South Africa

被引：7

作者：

Gütschow, D

Kachieng'a, MO

机构：

[1] Eskom Holdings, Distribut Technol Dept, Cape Town, South Africa

[2] Univ Pretoria, Engn & Technol Management Dept, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS | 2005年 / 20卷 / 01期

关键词：

finance; life cycle costing; power distribution; power distribution reliability; power quality; power system control;

D O I：

10.1109/TPWRS.2004.841215

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Despite the plethora of Distribution Automation (DA) activity that occurred in the last two decades, very few utilities have embarked on large-scale DA implementation. The main reasons for this appears to have been uncertainty about which DA functions should be implemented and, second, the difficulty in financially justifying DA investments. The paper investigates the combination of DA functions that could best address Eskom's business requirements and, second, upon reaching this conclusion, proceeds to develop a model by which proposed investments in DA systems could be evaluated.

引用

页码：272 / 278

页数：7