Distribution Automation for Smart Grid Reliability
The need to optimize performance of your transmission and distribution assets has never been greater. Congestion on an aging power infrastructure continues to increase, creating urgent demand for reliable and cost-efficient solutions.
Distribution automation (DA) should be part of your solution. Let Burns & McDonnell help you embrace the Smart Grid approach to increasing reliability at a cost that meets your expectations.
Why Consider Distribution Automation?
DA allows real-time monitoring, control and automated operation of distribution networks. Through the implementation of a well-designed system, a utility is able to optimize its operation and directly improve the reliability of its distribution power system. Utilities considering enhancement or extension of their distribution infrastructure can do so by reaching beyond the substation, using newly available, affordable, high-speed communication technology.
- Centralizes remote monitoring of electrical distribution infrastructure
- Expedites fault detection, fault location and service restoration
- Intelligently reconfigures and sectionalizes feeders
- Analyzes distribution load flow
- Improves voltage and power factor remotely
- Extends asset life
- Increases infrastructure reliability
- Optimizes decision making
- Reduces operating and maintenance costs
- Improves customer satisfaction
- Fiber optics network
- Microwave networks
- Broadband wireless networks
- Broadband over power lines
- Distribution line carriers
- Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
- Synchronous optical networking (SONET)
- Multi-protocol label switching
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Substation integration and automation