Underground and Overhead Networks Life-Cycle Asset Risk Management [WG 2021-3]
The electrical network includes overhead and underground assets. Each are exposed to different impacts at all stages of their life cycles. Aesthetics, safety, cost, resiliency, and reliability are different for each grid topology and will influence an asset’s life-cycle risk management.
One of the most important roles for the DSO is to manage the assets assuring that the network is safe, resilient and provides the expected level of reliable service. To do so effectively and efficiently, DSO needs access to detailed asset condition data, each asset’s importance to network resilience, how the assets interact with each other and to have advanced tools to identify optimal life cycle management (costs, performance, risks), to optimise Capex and Opex budgets.