Distribution system interruption data and IEEE performance indices can provide valuable insights into the tradeoffs involved with reliability improvement measures. Standard 1366 was issued in 1998 and ...

In downtown Shanghai, China, more than 1500 K-stations serve as the backbone of the medium-voltage 10-kV distribution network. A K-station typically is equipped with a single bus bar system divided ...

A group of scientists led by Portuguese research center Instituto de Telecomunicações and the University of Lisbon has utilized the so-called Arrhenius equation to assess the reliability of ...

An industry expert discusses use of the Weibull distribution for life testing electromechanical relays. Life tests for electro-mechanical relays can be set up using relatively small sample sizes, ...