Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures: Edition 2

See What’s New in the Second Edition:

• All chapters have been updated or are completely new
• Comprehensive discussions of all issues related to equipment aging
• Business impact analysis and models and engineering business studies of actual utility cases
• Strategy and policy issues and how to frame and customize them for specific situations

This book looks at the basics of equipment aging and its system and business impacts on utilities. It covers various maintenance, service and retrofit methods available to mitigate age-related deterioration of equipment. It also presents numerous configuration and automation upgrades at the system level that can deal with higher portions of aging equipment in the system and still provide good service at a reasonable cost.