15 T&D EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHIES
15.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses ownership “philosophies” – the best word the authors can find to cover the very palpable differences in thinking and attitude that color electrical equipment management values and decisions at different companies. Readers interested only in technical aspects of equipment aging, their impacts and interactions with power systems, and the methods of analysis and mitigation that companies can use to control aging’s effects can move past this chapter, but it provides an interesting and useful discussion of why companies sometimes take a particular approach to the management of their aging infrastructures.
The authors have never encountered two companies – be they utilities ...
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