Patent ID: 8718833

Claim:
A system for controlling localized load conditions to extend electrical distribution system component life, the system comprising: an asset state collector that receives status information from one or more components of the electrical distribution system; a failure predictor that forms a load-dependent time-to-failure estimate for at least one of the components based on the status information; a load manager that creates an operating load to be experienced by the at least one of the components based on the load-dependent time-to-failure estimate; a load flow analyzer that determines other components that effect an amount of load on the at least one of the components; a demand manager that generates a switching instruction that causes at least some power to be diverted away from the at least one of the components to one of the other components when a required power of loads coupled to the at least one of the components exceeds the operating load; wherein a first sensor coupled to the at least one of the components; a second sensor coupled to the one of the other components; and the status information is received from the first and second sensors and the switching instruction causes power to be diverted from the at least one of the components to the one of the other components.