INTELLIGENT ONLINE DECISION-SUPPORT FOR DISTRIBUTION-SYSTEM CONTROL AND OPERATION

Significant improvements have been taking place in the power and exten t of the monitoring and control systems employed by electrical power u tilities, with the result that strategic decisions are having to be ma de concerning the use of the increased data now available. The evoluti onary changes being made to power systems are introducing increased ex pectations of the performance of system management and control. Howeve r, more effective system control can only be exercised if the increase d volume of data is matched by an increased capacity to interpret syst em conditions from the control room. The decision support system descr ibed in this paper makes use of expert system techniques in order to p rovide intelligent reasoning based on the incoming alarm data. Both th e readily available benefits, and the advance towards the next generat ion of power systems which this type bf system will afford shall be pr esented along with a description of the decision support system.