@ARTICLE{Dołęga_Waldemar_Operation_2018, author={Dołęga, Waldemar}, volume={vol. 21}, number={No 3}, journal={Polityka Energetyczna - Energy Policy Journal}, pages={123-136}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN}, abstract={The paper looks at the issues of operation safety of the national power grid and the characteristics of the national power grid in the areas of transmission and distribution. The issues of operation safety of the national transmission and distribution grid were discussed as well as threats to operation safety and security of the electricity supply related to these grids. Failures in the transmission and distribution grid in 2017, caused by extreme weather conditions such as: a violent storm at the night of 11/12.08.2017, hurricane Ksawery on 5–8.10.2017, and hurricane Grzegorz on 29–30.10.2017, the effects of which affected tens of thousands of electricity consumers and led to significant interruptions in the supply of electricity were presented. At present, the national power (transmission and distribution) grid does not pose a threat to the operation safety and security of the electricity supply, and is adapted to the current typical conditions of electricity demand and the performance of tasks during a normal state of affairs, but locally may pose threats, especially in extreme weather conditions. A potentially high threat to the operation safety of the national power grid is closely linked to: age, technical condition and the degree of depletion of the transmission and distribution grids, and their high failure rate due to weather anomalies. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and modernize the 400 and 220 kV transmission grids, cross-border interconnections, and the 110 kV distribution grid (especially in the area of large urban agglomerations), and the MV distribution grid (especially in rural areas). The challenges faced by the transmission and distribution grid operators within the scope of investment and operating activities, with a view to avoiding or at least reducing the scale of grid failures in the case of future sudden high-intensity atmospheric phenomena, are presented.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Operation safety of the national distribution grid}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108637/PDF/09-a-04-Dolega.pdf}, doi={10.24425/124495}, keywords={power grid, operation safety, security of energy supply}, }