En jämförande studie avtillförlitlighetsmetoder för elnät : en utvärdering av Nätnyttomodellens tillförlitlighetsmetod

In Sweden, electrical distribution system operators, possesses a natural monopolistic situation in the distribution of electricity. The regulation has changed radically; from a regulation model based on actual costs, to a model with the performance of the distribution in focus – Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM). Reliability of the distribution is one of the features the new model takes in to consideration. The NPAM creates a reference network, based on objective data. The thesis describes the NPAM in general and the method of reliability in NPAM in detail. The originator of the NPAM has been interviewed in addition tostudying literature. More traditional methods of reliability modelling of electrical systems is described. The computer programs RADPOW and NEPLAN, are described. Especially RADPOW, developed at the Royal Institute of Technology, is used in the analyses. The method in the NPAM is evaluated, with a com aring analyse to the more traditional methods and from the study of the NPAM. All the models and calculations are based on the same, in reality existing electrical distribution system. The studied distribution system is a part of the distribution network of Gavle Energi AB, a local Swedish electrical distribution system operator. The studied system, is at the 10 kV level and both has parts with many and few customers per area. Whole electrical system and its components have been described and modelled. For every component type, average reliability data for use in the components, used as input data for the models, have been estimated. The most important goals of this thesis: Describe and compare different methods of reliability, especially the aspects of the method of the NPAM. Some of the questions at issue to answer are: What consequences do the method of the NPAM lead to and which distinctions are there in different methods? The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Gavle Energi AB have assisted in the theses.