Abstract

Transformer Capacity Analysis
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: Ben Teran

Murray City Power is the only municipal power company with the Salt Lake Valley, serving a population of around 49,000. One problem that is common among power companies is regularly trying to understand and gage the electrical capacity of the power system. By using ArcGIS and Model Builder we have been able to create a process that allows us to trace our power network data and identify all the transformers that are over 140% capacity. This helps us reduce and avoid possible power outages.