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SWER and Rural Electrification Links and Bibliography, The best of SWER and Rural Electrification, from drawings and designs, to the background and history of SWER When One Wire is Enough Transmission and Distribution World, April 2001, Volume 53. No. 4. Page 56, Neil Chapman, E.T.C.E.E. Aust. DIP.M. This contemporary article explores various aspects of the ongoing use of SWER in rural Australia Reducing the cost of Grid Extension for Rural Electrification, NRECA International, February 2000, this is a World Bank publication that details the costs associated with rural grid extension. This is great reference material if you want to do some comparative analysis on the costs of different solutions for grid extension, it also explores ways of lowering the cost of Rural Electrification. The following links are to an Adobe Acrobat download in three parts, they take a very long time to download and require you to have the Adobe Acrobat reader available Australian Standard AS2558-1982 Transformers for use on single wire earth return distribution systems This standard can be purchased in pdf format (adobe acrobat format) from the Standards Australia website, and includes technical specifications for SWER isolating transformers and distribution transformers. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Energy Chapter, The World Bank, This outlines the links between rural electrification and poverty reduction, it is written in a very academic style, and is a large pdf download of 798 kb Mini-Grid Design Manual, ESMAP Technical Paper 007, September 2000, Another downloadable publication by Allen Inversin, International Programs NRECA, This manual is an excellent introductory text to the technical issues behind grid based and off grid distribution design and construction methods. The manual focuses on the design of the grid system to distribute power to customers, designs covered in this manual range from low-cost designs to serve basic lighting needs, to conventional designs that may become interconnected to the grid within the near future (Advisory this is a VERY large file of 19.88 MB so please ensure you have a fast internet connection before downloading this file) Bibliography High Voltage Earth Return Distribution for Rural Areas, The Electricity Authority of New South Wales, Fourth Edition, June 1978, If you only get one text on SWER, this should be the one. It covers technical and economic aspects of rural electrification using SWER, and includes drawings for 12.7 kV (22 kV) and 19.1kV (33 kV) SWER systems. |
