NES tackles circuit reliability: software tools enable utility to cost-effectively schedule reliability improvements

摘要

To meet growing power demand, Nashville Electric Service (NES; Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.), with assistance from ABB Utility Consulting, completed a 20 year transmission and distribution (T&D) construction plan covering the period from July 2001 to June 2021. The long-range forecast and planning process required an extensive integration effort of existing and new software tools. These tools include CADOPS, FEEDERALL, RELINET, FORESITE and PSS/E. The new applications under implementation in the study were the FORESITE spatial load forecasting model and the RELINET reliability tool. An important accomplishment was the integration of the outage management system (OMS) with FEEDERALL and RELINET.