Implementation of an innovative advanced loop scheme to provide distribution reliability improvement

With the ever-increasing importance of electricity, excellent service reliability is no longer a luxury in the eyes of consumers but an expectation. In response to this expectation, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is making a significant investment in a new technology to help improve reliability. This new technology has resulted in an automated feeder reconfiguration scheme that not only minimizes the duration of an outage due to a fault and the number of customers impacted by it but also reduces the number of customers experiencing a blink and subsequent switching. PSE&G has implemented an innovative solution designed to improve their reliability indices. The advanced loop scheme (ALS) builds on the PSE&G standard distribution scheme that used a normally open tie to separate two feeders.