Quiz 3 Flashcards
What is reliability?
The ability of an item to perform a required function,
under given environmental and operational conditions
and for a stated period of time (ISO 8402):
Power system reliability two concepts:
1) Security: Short term operation
2) Adequacy: Long term operation and planning
Goal for power providers
(Safety first). Always provide power to consumer
What is power system security?
Short term. The ability of the power system to withstand sudden
disturbances such as short circuits or non-anticipated loss of
the system components.
What is power system adequacy?
The system should always be working.
Long term.
The ability of the system to supply the aggregate electric power and energy requirements of the customers at all times, taking into account
scheduled and unscheduled outages of the
system components
When do we use reliability analyses? (Applications of reliability analysis) (9 st)
Estimation of cost of reliability of supply and interruption (what is worth to do, what kind of reliability do we need?)
Investment planning
Application of concessions
Design and evaluation of different measures
Establishment of standards for security supply
Operation and maintenance (a lot of this)
Emergency planning (sabotage)
Risk and vulnerability assessment
Sizing of back up system (both power and energy)
Concession?
The right to build powerlines.
System to avoid having excess powerlines
You need to do reliability analysis to prove that you are able
Back-up system?
Diesel generators, but try to avoid usage. For important societal things, police, hospitals maybe grocery stores.
Trade-off economics and reliability?
High reliability: high investment cost/operating cost
Low reliability: cost of failures
Classification of power system reliability
HL-I: generation facilities
HL-II: generation and transmission facilities
HL-III: generation, transmission and distribution facilities
Why 3? To be able to see where the system is failing. Different indices for the different classes.
HL-III indices
SAIFI
SAIDI
CAIDI
CAIFI
(ASAI)
SAIFI
System Average Interruption Frequency Index (how often per year in Sweden, in some countries per day) [no. /y]
SAIDI
System Average Interruption Duration Index (how long is the power out) [min/y]
CAID
Customer average interruption duration index [min/y]
CAIFI
Customer Average Interruption Frequency
Index [no. /y]
Indices equation
Look up (L13 slide 13)
ASAI
Average System Availability Index [pu]
What can you use HL-III indices for?
Impact of refurbishing
Impact of extension
Know where to make investments
(To keep up the reliability)
Equation for expansion
See L13 slide 16
In Sweden, where are the interruptions mainly?
Low voltage (0.4 kV) bc there are a lot of them, and they don’t have a lot of impact
(more in 12 kV, and much less in 24 kV and <10 kV)
Low SAIDI high CAIDI indicates?
Interruption concentrated to a few customers
Causes of interruption
Most common: weather phenomenon (mostly storm), lightning, material/method (impurities in materials, mistreated in installation), mechanical impact (man-made, ex dig of cable)
Why is reliability different in developing countries? (not really in the quiz)
Weak institutions (big investments - long-term planning needed. In Sweden grid is an income!)
Power system is being constructed (a lot is happening, urbanisation)
Poverty
Demands of renewable energy sources
Fast growing populations
(Harsh climates (hot countries - max need when hottest for AC, easily stresses the system. In Sweden in winter we have natural cooling while max need))
(Unstable politically)
Measure outage in developing countries
Multi-tier framework (much less “hard” than SAIFI and SAIDI)
Measures in hours available electricity, not considering power quality
How to improve reliability?
Add redundancy -more power lines feeding from both directions. Look for hotspots, where it breaks most often.
Should we improve reliability (in Sweden)?
Maybe more local backup rather than big investments
A paradigm shift in power distribution/grids? (4)
Central production -> distributed production
Controllable generation -> intermittent generation (renewables)
Uncontrollable loads -> controllable loads (ex. avoid buying when expensive, stresses the system less, win-win)
Products -> services (what it should do for us more important than how, as DH instead of electrical heating)
Purpose smart grids?
“How to manage”
Grid will require measurements, control and distribution of the right information to the right part at the right time. Often called smart grids
Smart grids and security
These grids are possible to hack, opposite to traditional mechanical systems
Definitions smart grids (one of them)
Increased use, both more efficient and by providing new services, of electric power systems, both exisiting and future, by utlizing new components, technologies and strategies
- Jimmy
Why smart grids?
Environmental
- less losses
- less land needed
- less raw materials
- less visual impact
- decreased EMF etc
Economy
- less losses
- utilize low “electricity prices”
- reduce the need for regulating power
- less new powerlines