Examining the effect of TOU program on distribution transformators life time

 

Fatemeh mohammadi .S,  Shahram Moradi

Gilan power distribution company

 

This paper studies the effects of time of use program (TOU), which is one of the demand response programs in distribution systems. The objective used in this paper is to increase transformer life time as much as possible. To assess this program, a 250KVA transformer is assumed. At first the life time of the transformer is calculated based on the transformer actual load curve, then the optimal load curve taken from TOU is used to calculate the life time