LV & 11kV Networks
£4,025.00
A level of uncertainty exists within the industry relating to the variations in
network design standards and their level of inherent resilience to weather
conditions therefore this project was initiated to outline the basic
requirements and investigate the possibility of delivering a realistic output.
The study will develop the specific user requirements by consultation (based
on what should be included i.e. lightning faults, rain faults, snow sleet and
blizzard faults, freezing fog faults, wind and gale faults, solar heat faults,
flooding faults, site specific and area representative wind resources) and then
assess the various methods of modelling their effects on fault rates and
network resilience.
There is low confidence associated with directly modelled
winds in climate models and EP2 identified that weather type analysis
(because the synoptic pattern is larger scale) may provide an alternative
method to project wind and thus wind related faults and wind resource. The
project will include an assessment of the potential confidence factors
associated with various modelling techniques and include detailed minimum
and optimum outputs for a range of timescales (5 days, 5 – 10 years and 40
– 50 years).