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Advanced Distribution Automation with DER Function

Publication Date: December 2010
Publishing Organization: Electric Power Research Institute
Format: PDF
Keywords:

advanced distribution automation function, data preparation, distribution operation control, distribution operations, epri use case repository, generation systems operations, optimal decision-making, power quality, power system efficiency, reliability of power system service, smart grid, transmission

Summary:

This document describes the Advanced Distribution Automation Function and how it enhances the reliability of power system service, power quality, and power system efficiency, by automating the following three processes of distribution operation control: data preparation in near-real-time; optimal decision-making; and the control of distribution operations in coordination with transmission and generation systems operations.