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Improving PQ for Sensitive Customers by a Small Utility in SE Asia
Date: Thursday, April 26th, 2001 Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N. Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ
Speaker: Terry Chandler
Topic: "Improving PQ for Sensitive Customers by a Small Utility in SE Asia"
A small utility in Malaysia was presented with new sensitive loads when high profile manufacturing companies started expanding physically and technically to meet the needs of an increasing worldwide market. The nature of these customers, in addition to the existing assessment tools, created a need for a more specialized monitoring program. A new element was introduced in the "decision to invest" process. Governing agencies sought to attract more high-technology customers to the area as well as maintain positive relationships with the existing customers. Supportive initiatives, to provide an attractive infrastructure to efficiently address reliability issues on the power system, were fully encouraged.
The following paper will demonstrate the dramatic improvement in the reliability of the power delivered based upon the establishment of a long term monitoring program. Four specific areas will be discussed: establishment of the monitoring program, development of the baseline utility performance, implementation of system improvements and evaluation of on-going results for scalability. Detailed data will be presented from both the utility service level and the customer usage level. In addition, a discussion on the economic and political ramifications of this program on the service territory will be addressed.
Speaker Bio:
Founder and Director of Engineering of Power Quality Inc and Power Quality Thailand LTD
Terry has more than 20 years experience recording and diagnosing Power Quality situations worldwide. He has pioneered Power Quality monitoring networks and systems in S.E. Asia. He provides Power Quality consulting for all the local utilities in S.E. Asia. He assists large power users with Power Quality mitigation systems for sensitive loads.
University of Minnesota Electrical Engineering Program and University of Maryland Electronics Engineering Program
