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Graves
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ccording to the IEEE Brown Book
(ANSI/IEEE Standard 399-1990),
“The planning, design and operation of
a power system requires continual and
comprehensive analyses to evaluate current system
performance and to establish the effectiveness of al-
ternative plans for system expansion.”
Performance Problems
Factors that keep a power system from doing its job
can be divided into two categories: equipment or
component failures and equipment or component
operation (intentional or unintentional).
■ Equipment or component that can fail include
cable insulation, bus insulation, transformers,
circuit breakers, and motors. Some of these
failures may be related to the original system
design and equipment or device failure.
■ Equipment, component, or erratic operation
are represented by actions such as circuit
breaker trips, fuses blowing, switch opera-
tion, and protective relay operation. Some of
those operations are correctly doing their job,
and others are operating on conditions that
should not cause power system interruptions.
Any factor that prevents a power system from
doing its job reduces the productivity of the power
system and ultimately the facility that it serves.