Making business sense of distribution automation systems: The case of Eskom, South Africa

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 272-278

  Gütschow, Dieter ^a,b   Kachieng'a, Michael O ^b  

^a ESKOM   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Finance; Life cycle costing; Power distribution; Power distribution reliability; Power quality; Power system control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FINANCE; INVESTMENTS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER CONTROL; RELIABILITY;

DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE COSTING; POWER DISTRIBUTION RELIABILITY; POWER QUALITY; POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 13844318466     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2004.841215     Document Type: Article

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