The Importance of Power Quality Monitoring for Modern Network Operators and Industries in Zambia (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

Modern electricity networks contain a mixture of different types of loads all of which affect the voltage one way or the other. They can either improve or deteriorate the so-called “voltage quality”, also known as “power quality” or “quality of power” that is being supplied by network operators and received by their customers. Increased use of power electronic devices for the control of rotating electrical machines and the presence of sensitive electronic equipment has further affected the power quality. The impact of new equipment is rarely an improvement, although it is often less than feared at first. The shortage of rainfall has resulted in a lot of investment in solar photovoltaics power, which has the potential to further worsening the power quality in the Zambian power network. To quantify the impact of these and other changes on the power quality requires monitoring of voltage and current with high accuracy and time resolution. The results of such a power-quality monitoring ...

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