A Study of Product Quality in the Electricity Network in the Province of Burgos.

Abstract

Changes in the regulation of electrical systems have meant a reorganisation of the firms in the sector, subdividing them into different areas of action. Distribution firms, in addition to supplying energy, are now responsible for monitoring the "service quality" with which the product reaches the client and for communicating to the Ministry of Economics (Minister for Energy Policy and Mines) and to the corresponding Administrations information as to service quality established in the decree-law. The first of its contents refers to continuity of the service, for which measurement and control procedures have already been passed, such that we now have the first published data at community level. As regards product quality, the aforementioned Royal Decree indicates that the characteristics of the wave must be those specified in norm UNE-EN 50160, while the corresponding measurement and control procedures, for which there are already some draft versions, are still pending approval. The paper focuses on the quality of the product and aims to harmonise the steps established in some of the draft versions to delimit margins, establish measurement periods and suggest a format for the presentation and interchange of data. In collaboration with the electricity company IBERDROLA, we have begun to acquire measurements, to carry out a "precompliance" study in the province of Burgos.