ADVANCED MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTION PLANNING AND OPERATION — A PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN COOPERATION PROJECT

The paper reports the main objectives and results of a Portuguese-Brazilian project on advanced management technologies for distribution planning and operation. Technologies for management of planning studies and scheduling of real-time switching were developed based on a powerful analysis, simulation and optimisation system: DPlan. The main functionalities of the management technologies are reported and illustrated and their relation to other corporate systems, namely SCADA and GIS, are described.