Fault Location Faulty Powers Intelligent Solutions

Asian Power February 2002 21 www.asian-power.com Fault management in distribution networks is one of the most challenging and at least the most visible task of the utilities. From the customer point of view the power cut means at least harm but in many cases also costs, which may be tens of times greater than the cost of delivered energy. Pekka Verho, Product Manager at ABB in Finland (part time professor at the Tampere University of Technology) and Pertti Järventausta a professor at the Tampere University of Technology look at the fault management process and an IT-based solution that provides support for this process. Faulty powers