Concept of Automation in Management of Electric Power Systems

An electric power system includes a generating, a
transmission, a distribution, and consumers subsystems. An electrical
power network in Tanzania keeps growing larger by the day and
become more complex so that, most utilities have long wished for
real-time monitoring and remote control of electrical power system
elements such as substations, intelligent devices, power lines,
capacitor banks, feeder switches, fault analyzers and other physical
facilities. In this paper, the concept of automation of management of
power systems from generation level to end user levels was
determined by using Power System Simulator for Engineering
(PSS/E) version 30.3.2.

• Richard Joseph
• Nerey Mvungi

• Automation
• Distribution subsystem
• Generating subsystem
• PSS/E
• TANESCO
• Transmission subsystem.

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