Introduction to UAN Power Equipment Condition Datasets

Abstract: Power systems are equipment and data intensive. In todays big data era, a large amount of data is being generated from power system equipment via various inspection and testing activities. The industry is encouraged to make optimal decisions for power equipment maintenance, replacement, configuration and planning. Utility companies are trying to leverage the use of big data and advanced analytics for equipment management in order to balance system reliability, performance and cost. To advance such applications and promote collaborations with external researchers, the Utility Analytics Network has made the effort to gather 15 datasets from multiple utility companies in North America on various types of power equipment. These datasets are now shared in public and this paper serves the purpose of providing a detailed introduction to the datasets.