Outage Management

What is Outage Management?

Outage planning is a key to the operation of a power system network, to enable planned maintenance, refurbishment and network expansion activities to be carried out without compromising system security.

Outage Management in PowerFactory

PowerFactory’s Outage Management tool allows time-based planned equipment outages to be easily applied and reset. Outages can incorporate associated system actions such as substation reconfiguration or load management, and the function includes graphical visualisation and tabular reporting.

  • Tool for management of planned outages
  • Schedule supports various recurrence patterns
  • Support of associated remedial actions
  • Action macro recorder to facilitate definition of remedial action events
  • Integrated functions for apply and reset planned outages
  • Tabular reports and Gantt diagrams with various filter options
  • Graphical visualisation of outage and remedial actions, including affected regions
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