Feeder Load Management

The Feeder Load Management (FLM) application is intended to provide a system wide overview of the current loading conditions on the network and optionally future loading scenarios. The FLM Summary tool can be viewed as a "Work Agenda" for ADMS; it can allow the operators to quickly identify current or future problems. It has 3 views of feeder status:

• Earliest Alarms: Displays feeders that are either currently in an alarm state or predicted to enter an alarm state within the forecast window.

• Worst Alarms: Displays the worst current or forecasted alarm (if any) for each feeder.

• Present Loads: Displays the current state of each feeder. This is the only view that shows feeders not in an alarm state.

Alarms on a feeder are triggered by warnings or violations of the following types:

• Ratings overload

• Voltages out of range

• Backfeeding

• Distributed generation alerts

• Protection issues.

Note on licensing: The PowerFlow license incorporates both real-type and study mode power flow analysis and includes real-time Feeder Load Management analysis. The Feeder Load Management license leverages PowerFlow, but also incorporates load forecasting and is dependent on load profile data.