I'm just interested in how Western Power, for example, detemines where a fault lies when a power outage occurs. They seem to pinpoint it very accurately within a few minutes, or even seconds. For example, this morning, suddenly, there were three brief power outages in ten minutes, each lasting just a few seconds. But when I rang the fault number the adviser already knew about the fault, which was apparently on a high voltage line, and the outages happened as a result of re-routing the electricity supply.
Is the monitoring equipment so sophisticated nowadays that many/most outages are picked up from the control consoles? I can recall back in
2005 when the electricity company after a storm was out in a rugged Land Rover scanning the power cables bit by bit.Our supply here in rural Lincs has improved considerably over the past few years, but am I glad I got UPSs for both PCs many years ago! They've kicked in many times.
MM