Impact of Distributed Energy Resources on the Reliability of a Critical Telecommunications Facility Metadata

Title

• Main Title Impact of Distributed Energy Resources on the Reliability of a Critical Telecommunications Facility

Creator

• Author: Robinson, D.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Atcitty, C.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Zuffranieri, J.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Arent, D.
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
  Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

• Name: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
  Place of Publication: Golden, Colorado
  Additional Info: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.

Date

• Creation: 2006-03-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: Telecommunications has been identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a critical infrastructure to the United States. Failures in the power systems supporting major telecommunications service nodes are a main contributor to major telecommunications outages, as documented by analyses of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outage reports by the National Reliability Steering Committee (under auspices of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions). There are two major issues that are having increasing impact on the sensitivity of the power distribution to telecommunication facilities: deregulation of the power industry, and changing weather patterns. A logical approach to improve the robustness of telecommunication facilities would be to increase the depth and breadth of technologies available to restore power in the face of power outages. Distributed energy resources such as fuel cells and gas turbines could provide one more onsite electric power source to provide backup power, if batteries and diesel generators fail. But does the diversity in power sources actually increase the reliability of offered power to the office equipment, or does the complexity of installing and managing the extended power system induce more potential faults and higher failure rates? This report analyzes a system involving a telecommunications facility consisting of two switch-bays and a satellite reception system.
• Physical Description: 78 pp.

Subject

• STI Subject Categories: 30 Direct Energy Conversion
• Keyword: Distributed Energy Resources
• STI Subject Categories: 32 Energy Conservation, Consumption, And Utilization
• Keyword: Homeland Security
• Keyword: Sandia National Laboratories
• Keyword: Satellites
• Keyword: Electric Power
• Keyword: Power Systems
• STI Subject Categories: 08 Hydrogen
• Keyword: Communications
• Keyword: Deregulation
• Keyword: Weather Telecommunications
• Keyword: Power Outages
• Keyword: Security
• Keyword: Power Distribution
• STI Subject Categories: 24 Power Transmission And Distribution
• Keyword: Sensitivity
• Keyword: Federal Communications Commission
• Keyword: Reliability
• Keyword: Doug Arent
• Keyword: Doug Arent
• STI Subject Categories: 02 Petroleum
• Keyword: Energy Analysis
• STI Subject Categories: 29 Energy Planning, Policy And Economy
• Keyword: Gas Turbines
• Keyword: Fuel Cells
• Keyword: Telecommunications

Source

• Related Information: Joint report with Sandia National Laboratories

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: SAND2006-1277
• Report No.: NREL/TP-620-39561
• Grant Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• DOI: 10.2172/878567
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 878567
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc878888