Isolated Area Reliability: Georgia Power brings next-generation system protection to St. Simon's Island

摘要

EVEN IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT, FAULT-DISTANCE-SENSITIVE RELAYING, ISLANDS and other isolated areas still present a major restoration hurdle because of radial taps on radial lines. Islands can be fed through several different conventions, but the fact remains that it is extremely expensive to build redundancy. And in the event of an outage, restoration efforts are usually both difficult and time consuming. To reduce the time it takes to restore power on a prominent resort island, Georgia Power Co. (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.), a Southern Company subsidiary, has implemented new technology to assist in load restoration.