Power Quality
Reliability
Access Energy Cooperative's Engineering and Operations Departments continue to provide our members with the high quality, reliable service you need. We have adopted a written program for inspecting and maintaining your electric supply lines and in order to determine the necessity for replacement, maintenance and repair, and for tree pruning or other vegetation management. By performing annual maintenance and inspection programs, we continue to provide safe, reliable, efficient service while maintaining environmental responsibility.
SCADA
Access Energy Cooperative has installed a system-wide Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. The SCADA system allows your cooperative to monitor voltage and current values by circuit and phase for all 16 substations. It alarms our Operations Department when voltage levels fall outside the allowable range, when fault currents are detected, and when substation reclosers have locked out. Some of the larger-load substations have electronic reclosers installed that allow us to operate the reclosers from our Operations Center in the case of a service interruption, which can reduce outage time and improve member reliability.
Service Interruptions
Restoring Power After Service Interruptions This section describes our method of power restoration following a service interruption.
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Power Quality
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Power Factor
We can also help you understand how issues related to your power factor can result in higher energy costs and potential safety issues and how to correct them. Click here to find out more about power factor or contact our engineering department.