The objective of this book is to present the fundamentals of reliability analysis applied to the planning and design of industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems. The intended audience for this material is primarily consulting engineers and plant electrical engineers and technicians. The design of reliable industrial and commercial power distribution systems is important because of the high cost associated with power outages. It is necessary to consider the cost of power outages when making design decisions for new power distribution systems as well as to have the ability to make quantitative “cost-versus-reliability” trade-off studies. T...

The objective of this book is to present the fundamentals of reliability analysis applied to the planning and design of industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems. The intended audience for this material is primarily consulting engineers and plant electrical engineers and technicians. The design of reliable industrial and commercial power distribution systems is important because of the high cost associated with power outages. It is necessary to consider the cost of power outages when making design decisions for new power distribution systems as well as to have the ability to make quantitative “cost-versus-reliability” trade-off studies. T...

The Gold Book is the only standard dedicated solely to the reliability analysis of industrial and commercial power systems. The present comprehensive equipment reliability surveyed data in the Gold Book will be updated by the Power Reliability Enhancement Program (PREP) sponsored database and will be the only database available publicly in the world for reliability analysis of industrial and commercial power systems. Each chapter in this standard will be updated to reflect current practices necessary for reliable operation of today's computer environments and mission critical facilities including voltage sag analysis based on equipment susceptibility charact...