Reliability evaluation considering customized power quality supply in FRIENDS.

The authors have proposed a Flexible, Reliable and Intelligent ENergy Delivery System (called “FRIENDS”), which is a new concept for a future power distribution system. One of the most important feature of FRIENDS is to be able to manage the reliability of power supply. In this paper, FRIENDS and a conventional distribution system are compared quantitatively as to supply reliability and cost through time sequential Monte Carlo simulation. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 151(4): 25–35, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (<URL>www.interscience.wiley.com</URL>). DOI 10.1002/eej.20053 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]