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Reviewing Power Outage Trends, Electric Reliability Indices And Smart Grid Funding, Shawn Adderly
Reviewing Power Outage Trends, Electric Reliability Indices And Smart Grid Funding, Shawn Adderly
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
As our electric power distribution infrastructure has aged, considerable investment
has been applied to modernizing the electrical power grid through weatherization
and in deployment of real-time monitoring systems. A key question is whether or not
these investments are reducing the number and duration of power outages, leading to
improved reliability.
Statistical methods are applied to analyze electrical disturbance data (from the
Department of Energy, DOE) and reliability index data (from state utility public service
commission regulators) to detect signs of improvement. The number of installed
smart meters provided by several utilities is used to determine whether the number
of smart …