International industry practice on power-quality monitoring
RIS ID
89426
Abstract
Monitoring of voltages and currents at system buses gives the network operators information about the performance of their network, both for the system as a whole and for individual locations and customers. There is also demand from the customers and the regulatory agencies to provide information on the actual power-quality (PQ) level. Developments in enabling technology have made it possible to monitor at a large scale and to record virtually any PQ parameter of interest. While many network operators are installing monitoring equipment and while more and more monitors are available, there is a lack of knowledge and agreement on a number of aspects of the monitoring process and on processing the recorded data. As a response to this lack of uniformity in approach, data acquisition, and processing, in February 2011, CIGRE and CIRED established the Joint Working Group C4.112: "Guidelines for Power quality monitoring-measurement locations, processing and presentation of data." In order to identify the current international industry practice on PQ monitoring, the group carried out a survey in 43 countries across the world. This paper summarizes the key findings from 114 responses to the questionnaire and identifies prevalent industrial practice in PQ monitoring around the world.
Publication Details
J. V. Milanovic, J. Meyer, R. F. Ball, W. Howe, R. Preece, M. H J. Bollen, S. Elphick & N. Cukalevski, "International industry practice on power-quality monitoring," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 29, (2) pp. 934-941, 2014.