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30115: Assessment of End-of-Useful-Life Criteria for Substation Secondary Equipment
The rapid rate of technological advancement can cause technical and economic obsolescence, where a population of like assets may still be fully functional but no longer meet the needs of the utility or can no longer be maintained, e.g., due to a lack of spares. Such a population of like assets is said to have reached its end-of-useful-life (EUL), even if it has not yet reached its end-of-life (EOL). Utilities require the means to predict when EUL will be reached, such that they can plan/budget a
Apr 14, 2016 - Oct 24, 2017