CONTROL and AUTOMATION of ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS By James Northcote-Green & Robert Wilson
Power engineering is the oldest and most traditional of the various areas within electrical engineering, yet no other facet of our modern industry is undergoing a more dramatic transformation in both technology and structure. This addition to Taylor & Francis’s Power Engineering Series addresses a cornerstone of that modern revolution: the use of advanced monitoring, computation, and control to improve the reliability and the economy of power delivery to energy consumers.
As the editor of the Power Engineering Series, I am proud to include Control and Automation of Electric Power Distribution Systems among this important group of books, particularly because James Northcote-Green and Robert Wilson have been close friends for many years; co-workers in whose expertise and extensive knowledge of power distribution and automation technology I have come to respect greatly.
Traditionally, electric utilities operated power distribution systems on a type of “dead reckoning” basis, with little or no on-line monitoring or remote automation involved. Utility planners “bought” reliability for their customers by using large capacity margins and redundancy of circuits and equipment throughout the network. These long-established power distribution system designs were robust and reasonably reliable, but the utilities, and their customers paid a considerable price for the contingency margins needed to make them so. Modern automation technologies can reduce contingency margins, improve utilization and economy of operation, and even provide improved scheduling and effectiveness of maintenance and service. However, they must be applied well, with the technologies selected to be compatible with the system’s needs, and targeted effectively for maximum impact, and integrated properly into the utilities operations and business enterprise, if the results are to live up to the promise.
This book provides the reader with a solid foundation to do exactly that. James Northcote-Green and Robert Wilson have put together well-organized, comprehensive, yet accessible discussion of distribution automation for the 21st-century electric utility. At both the introductory and advanced levels, it provides aboveaverage insight into the capabilities and limitations of control and automation systems, and it helps the reader develop a rich understanding of how and why automation should be used, and of what is realistic in its performance. In particular, readers will find the extensive practical business cases reviewed by the authors useful in helping them evaluate their own needs and justification studies.
Like all the books planned for the Power Engineering Series, this book provides modern power technology in a context of proven, practical application; useful as a reference book as well as for self-study and advanced classroom use. Taylor & Francis’s Power Engineering Series will eventually include books covering the entire field of power engineering, in all of its specialties and sub-genres, all aimed at providing practicing power engineers with the knowledge and techniques they need to meet the electric industry’s challenges in the 21st century.
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