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Concerning short-term asset management targets,
distribution system operation should be conducted,
while system planning is influenced by long term targets.

human resource management reaches maximum efficiency Third Target: Customer Social Rights
by training and providing incentives. in order to use equip- The framework of customer rights can be displayed as in
ment production resources optimally, all equipment must be Table 4, some of whose items represent constraints. The
constantly used at full capacity. The criteria for using equip- remaining items, however-in particular, environmental
ment production resources to obtain high efficiency can activities such as lighting-require price calculation and
therefore be divided into the following two classes:
consideration of the obtained price in tariff definition.
✔ capacity: maximum use of installed capacity and
minimum capacity installation to confront load growth Asset Management Processes
✔ time: constant use of equipment and providing maxi- of the Distribution System
mum time of use.
as mentioned earlier, activities geared toward meeting disregarding the targets mentioned above, the tree displayed tribution system targets can be divided into two categories:
in figure 4 can be considered to obtain maximum efficiency executive processes and activity constraints. asset managein using equipment production resources. The activities of ment processes can be summarized as follows:
distribution enterprises aimed at obtaining high efficiency
✔ load management
can therefore be summarized as in Table 3.
✔ maintenance management
The methods of improving the efficiency indicators can
✔ protection management
be described as follows:
✔ outage management
✔ Loss: There are two types of loss, technical and il✔ safety management
legal. Both must be minimized.
✔ voltage management
✔ Energy not supplied: The methods of decreasing en✔ harmonic management
ergy not supplied are the same as the methods used to
✔ transient state management
increase reliability.
✔ reactive power management
✔ Power factor: in addition to
improving resource efficienDispatching
cy directly, improvement of
the power factor leads to inData
Data Monitoring
direct loss reduction and thus
Flow
to efficiency improvement.
Data Analysis
✔ Load factor: all demandside management methods
result in the improvement of
Automation
load factor. changing load
components, social behavEnergy
iors, and tariff-making poliEnergy Efficiency
Flow
cies according to load profile are some of the activities
Money
that can be conducted by
Economic Indices
Flow
distribution companies to
improve this indicator.
✔ Utilization factor: To improve this indicator, load
Price Reduction
Service Improvement
management must be done
Stakeholders'
Efficiency Improvement
Benefit
in such a way that most of
Owners' Benefit Increment
the existing capacities are
Business Development
used for load feed and new
capacities are less necessary. figure 7. The role of distribution dispatching in asset management.
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