Electric Power Distribution Reliability Second Edition
Power engineering is the oldest and most traditional of the various areas within
electrical engineering, yet no other facet of modern technology is currently undergoing
a more dramatic revolution in technology or business structure. Perhaps
the most fundamental change taking place in the electric utility industry is the
move toward a quantitative basis for the management of service reliability. Traditionally,
electric utilities achieved satisfactory customer service quality through
the use of more or less “one size fits all situations” standards and criteria that
experience had shown would lead to no more than an acceptable level of trouble
on their system. Tried and true, these methods succeeded in achieving...