NEW CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDP DISTRIBUIÇÃO'S PQ MONITORING PLATFORM

EDP Distribuicao has implemented, over the past 14 years, as Distribution System Operation in Portugal, a Power Quality monitoring programme that meets, among others, the requirements of the Portuguese QoS regulation code. To support this programme, EDP Distribuicao has been developing a consistent Power Quality monitoring platform, which has been successively improved. Although the platform consistency, new global and technical challenges are constantly emerging, either by external or internal factors to the platform. Some future trends will be focused, namely future perspectives related with the necessary and desirable standardization on Power Quality measurement methods, data regulatory report and data interchange format.