New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 5 - ELECTRIC SERVICE
Subchapter 8 - ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SERVICE RELIABILITY AND QUALITY STANDARDS
Section 14:5-8.12 - Advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) and outage management systems (OMS)
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Each EDC shall maintain an ADMS or OMS as described in this section.
(b) The ADMS or OMS shall consist, at a minimum, of a fully integrated geographic information system (GIS), a sophisticated voice response unit (VRU), a software driven outage assessment tool, and an energy management system/supervisory control and data acquisition (EMS/SCADA).
(c) The ADMS or OMS shall be able to digitally map the entire electric distribution system, group customers who are out of service to the most probable interrupting device that operated, associate customers with distribution facilities, generate street-map indicating EDC outage locations, improve the management of resources during a storm, improve the accuracy of identifying the number of customers without electric service, accurately communicate the number of customers without electric service and improve the ability to estimate their expected restoration time, accurately communicate the number and when customers were restored, and dispatch crews and/or troubleshooters through computer (mobile data terminals).
(d) As part of the advanced distribution management system or outage management system, each EDC shall use appropriate cost benefit analysis for the purpose of adopting smart grid technology to improve reliability. The implementation of smart grid technology shall be reported in the Annual System Performance Report.
