A wide variety of electromagnetic phenomena occurring on AC power lines have been held responsible for literally billions of dollars per year in lost revenue. Information related to actual probability of occurrence of these power line deviations is presently limited. This paper describes the results of four years of point of utilization power quality monitoring at 112 North American locations. A quantity of 1,057 site months of data collected between 1990 and 1994 was used in this assessment. The data indicate that the numbers of events occurring at typical locations may range from almost none, to thousands per month. The analysis results characterize several aspects of power quality related to the occurrence of low RMS events, high RMS events, transient events and power interruptions (outages). >
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