New approaches and digital technology automation tasks processes of control and accounting of electricity in distribution networks

This paper studies 0.4 kV power distribution networks (PDN) and automated systems for electricity monitoring and metering (ASEMM) As is known, one of the main tasks of ASEMMs is the digitalization of PDNs, aimed at further improving the efficiency and reliability of their operation. It is advisable that new models, methods, and intelligent technologies used for automation and informatization of distribution networks should also be focused on minimizing their power losses, which are currently fairly high thus significantly compromising the technical and economic performance of automation systems employed and PDNs. Modern (conventional) ASEMMs, implemented at the facilities of utilities, do not have the appropriate technical, algorithmic, and software tools designed to reduce power losses in the PDN. This is due to the fact that conventional ASEMMs mainly solve the problem of remote data collection from the system meters and their digital processing for the purpose of revenue metering of electricity. In this regard, the paper proposes methodological, algorithmic, and digital technologies designed to solve a set of new functional tasks in the conventional ASEMMs, aimed at reducing power losses in DPNs by optimizing their operating conditions