16 CASE STUDY: WOOD DISTRIBUTION POLE MANAGEMENT

16.1 INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents a detailed case study involving the management of an old wood distribution pole infrastructure. This is a particularly long chapter because the study is presented in considerable detail, with tables of data and explanations of each step in the process from initial study to final plan.

Like all examples in this book, the utility name has been changed, and corporate, financial and cost data disguised via normalization to different totals in order to preserve that actual company’s anonymity. Otherwise the case study is presented as it occurred. Concentration here is on aspects likely to be unfamiliar to power system engineers who have not dealt with aging ...

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