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In this paper, a population of substation components is considered for preventive maintenance prior to which they were only repaired upon failure. Monte Carlo simulation technique is used to study and compare three different operation and maintenance scenarios. In the first scenario it is assumed that no maintenance takes places and components are repaired upon failure. In the second scenario it is...