Energized Downed Conductor - High-Impedance Fault

110

Years in Electric Utility Service

5K

Employees

4MM

Customers

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Business Need

Directed by PUC (Public Utilities Commission) to develop technologies to reduce the probability of public fatalities
Cost of incident
Public reputation

Challenge

New technology using AMI data
Competing for resources allocated to other methods
Limited number of verified EDC cases
Pilot required upload of new configuration to all meters
Extensive data set to analyze
Analytics needed to address multiple classes of EDCs, including load site, source side, and compound incidents
Pilot integration with the Utility’s systems needed to include an electrical connectivity model

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Solution and
Results

Tools developed to analyze data
New meter configuration uploaded to all meters to enable meters to provide real-time data
Identified new analytics to include pattern analytics; increased confidence
Methods developed to reduce false positives
Regression showed the analytics identified a high percentage of EDCs, their precise locations, and an accurate confidence level