High-Fault Circuit Reliability Turnaround

Protection · Root Cause Analysis · Reliability

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Ocala Electric Utility · 2016 – 2020

Challenge: One distribution circuit had among the highest fault and protection operation rates in the service territory, causing repeated customer outages.

Approach: I ran a root cause analysis, found the underlying design problems, and put corrective system changes in place.

Result: Protection operations on that circuit dropped to among the lowest in the territory.