Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures, 2nd Edition

17 Guidelines and Recommendations

17.1 INTRODUCTION

This final chapter summarizes and integrates the key points made about aging power delivery infrastructures and the technical and managerial methods covered in the previous sixteen chapters, into a coherent overview of the problem and its solution. It provides guidelines and recommendations as well as lessons-learned from experience and the case study (Chapter 16) which the authors think are generalizable.

Section 17.2 begins by summarizing the five main “causes” of aging infrastructure problems and highlighting how they interact among themselves and with other aspects of a utility’s operations. It then summarizes the four key points of solutions – methods that can mitigate the effects of ...