Outage and switch management for a power grid system
AssigneeGeneral Electric Technology GmbH
InventorsTory McKeag, John Awald, Kevin Curtis, Reynaldo Bernal
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Abstract
Outages and/or switching operations associated with an electrical energy distribution system (e.g., a power grid system) are managed. In an implementation, a system provides for receiving outage request information related to a request to interrupt a power supply provided to a device in an electrical energy distribution system, determining switching information related to a set of steps to de-energize a portion of the electrical energy distribution system associated with the device based on the outage request information, and performing a switching operation to de-energize the portion of the electrical energy distribution system based on the switching information.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a memory to store executable instructions;
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- a processor coupled to the memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising:
- receiving outage request information related to a request to interrupt a power supply provided to a device in an electrical energy distribution system;
- determining switching information related to a set of steps to de-energize a first portion of the electrical energy distribution system associated with the device based on the outage request information;
- performing a switching operation to de-energize the first portion of the electrical energy distribution system based on the switching information;
- in response to the switching operation, generating tag information for the device that comprises a status of the device, and determining a second portion of the electrical energy distribution system that satisfies a defined criterion and is not associated with the switching operation;
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- monitoring the second portion of the electrical energy distribution system that is not associated with the switching operation based on the tag information that is generated in response to the switching operation associated with the first portion of the electrical energy distribution system.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a device comprising a processor, first information related to a request to interrupt power provided to equipment in a power grid system;
- generating, by the device, second information related to a set of actions for de-energizing a first portion of the power grid system associated with the equipment based on the first information;
- performing, by the device, a switching operation for de-energizing the first portion of the power grid system based on the second information;
- generating, by the device, a tag association with a status the equipment in response to the switching operation;
- identifying, by the device, a second portion of the power grid system that satisfies a defined criterion and is not associated with the switching operation;
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- monitoring, by the device, the second portion of the power grid system that is not associated with the switching operation based on the tag association that is generated in response to the switching operation associated with the first portion of the power grid system.
A non-transitory computer readable storage device comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a device comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:
- receiving a request to interrupt electrical power provided to a first portion of an electrical energy distribution system;
- determining a set of actions associated with the electrical energy distribution system based on the request;
- performing a switching operation to interrupt the electrical power provided to the first portion of the electrical energy distribution system in response to a determination that the set of actions are performed;
- in response to the switching operation, generating tag data that comprises a status of first equipment associated with the first portion of the electrical energy distribution system, and identifying second equipment associated with a second portion of the electrical energy distribution system that satisfies a defined criterion and is not associated with the switching operation;
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- monitoring the second equipment associated with the second portion of the electrical energy distribution system based on the tag data that is generated in response to the switching operation associated with the first portion of the electrical energy distribution system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.