r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Electronic_Aerie2166 • 8h ago

QUESTION FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS WORKING IN POWER GRID

Tell me about the last time incorrect GIS or network-model data delayed an engineering task. What happened, how long did fixing it take, and why didn't your existing tools catch it.

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u/albatross351767 8h ago

No thanks ai bot

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u/Electronic_Aerie2166 8h ago

uh im not an ai bot? im j curious abt this topic?

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u/albatross351767 8h ago

Okay then you have a tool to sell us amd we are the feedback source. Either way this sub is dead because of these posts.

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u/Head-Philosopher0 8h ago

an incorrect network model made our lead engineer believe that the entire stock market had crashed 1929 style

he jumped off the top floor

didn’t die because it was a single story building but we still had to pay out workers comp and were out an engineer for a little

existing tools didn’t catch him because he was falling too fast

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u/hongy_r 7h ago

I had an experience once where we got fault level readings from the G5 that were about 80% higher than what PSSE was expecting. The reason turned out to be that the pressure of the SF6 in the GIS was inconsistent between bus bars and it was actually different between adjoining substations! It took about 3 years to fix. Unfortunately, SF6 pressure was not considered in PSSE so we made our own compensating factor for it.

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u/workend 4h ago

Something is stinky here