Norma para el mantenimiento de redes y equipos de medio y bajo voltaje en redes soterradas.

Abstract

The continuous growth of cities poses an important challenge for the country's energy distribution companies, which are increasingly immersed in the modernization of their electrical system through the implementation of underground networks.

In this sense, and based on the accelerated growth of this type of networks in recent years in Ecuador, a regulation is developed to regulate and establish the necessary guidelines for maintenance tasks of the different elements that make up the underground networks of medium and low voltage. In this way, it seeks to increase the levels of security and reliability.

The present work proposes a methodology that serves as a guide and that facilitates the process of the activities of operation and maintenance (predictive, preventive and corrective) of underground networks. This is how the main protocols and security measures to be taken into consideration during the operation and maintenance of this type of network have been described, in addition to describing the procedure for carrying out tests and trials for the diagnosis of equipment and cables, such as those most used methods in locating and pinpointing faults in underground networks.