NETWORK TECHNICAL LOSSES PRECISE EVALUATION USING DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ACCURATE NETWORK DATA

EU Member States shall ensure that concrete measures and investments are identified for the introduction of cost-effective energy efficiency improvements in the network infrastructure. A precise evaluation of the distribution network technical losses is crucial to plan efficiency actions on the network. For this reason, Enel Distribuzione, the main Italian distribution system operator, customized its Distributed Management System and integrated it to other Corporate Systems in order to get accurate and reliable results on losses calculation. Accuracy and reliability is really important because these data, officially communicated to the Italian electrical market regulator, are used to plan the grid operation at “minimum energy losses”.