The large growth in the wind power industry in the past years mainly focuses on a growing
market and the development of large turbines and offshore farms. The high technical …

This paper proposes a method for comparing the effect of different maintenance strategies
on system reliability and cost. This method relates reliability theory with the experience …

Deregulation and an increasing competition in electricity markets urge energy suppliers to
optimize the utilization of their equipment, focusing on technical and cost-effective aspects …

In power distribution systems, with their great vastness and various outage causes, one of
the most important problems of power distribution companies is to select a suitable …

Confronted with the power system restructuring trend reforming the past-regulated power
systems, the need for a narrower insight on the costly maintenance strategies seems …

Although reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) has proven its noticeable merits in many
industries, has not been yet furnished with efficient analytical methods in the power …

Power plant successful operation is always a function of its constituent sub-systems and
components. Due to the current financial constraints in power industry, power plant …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate maintenance strategies and
determine to what extent models from other sectors can be applied to building maintenance …

Reliability assessment in traditional power distribution systems has played a key role in
power system planning, design, and operation. Recently, new information and …

Wind turbines are a proven source of clean energy with wind power energy harvesting
technologies supplying about 3% of global electricity consumption. However there is an …