Wisconsin Power and Light Company Smart Grid Distribution Automation

Publication Date: June 15, 2015

Publishing Organization: U.S. Department of Energy

Author(s): jvezina

Format: PDF

Summary:
Wisconsin Power and Light Company's (WPL's) Smart Grid Distribution Automation project installed a new distribution management system (DMS) and added intelligent communications and control modules to 32% of the existing switchable capacitor banks. WPL also deployed a volt/volt-ampere reactive (volt/VAR) control application and two-way data transfer infrastructure to enable real-time optimization of feeder voltages and reduce demand on the system.