USING DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION TO IMPROVE POWER SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

摘要

Electric utilities throughout the world are frequently faced with the need to spend large amounts of limited resources on distribution system expansion. Distribution automation may provide a tool to achieve maximum utilization of the utility's physical plant in addition to a high quality of service to its customers. A computer-aided approach can be used to simulate distribution automation functions before actually implementing them, which can save substantial amounts of time and money. This paper presents the analysis of a distribution automation plan based on modeling a section of the distribution system in Egypt. The simulation will provide potential benefits such as improved efficiency due to the implementation of distribution automation. Egypt can serve as a model for other developing countries since it shares some socioeconomic conditions that are widespread in developing countries.