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However, most proposed methodologies tend to analyze PT as individuals and not as a fleet. A fleet assessment helps the asset manager make sound decisions regarding the maintenance scheduling for groups of PT with similar conditions. This paper proposes a new methodology to assess the risk of PT fleets, considering the technical condition and the strategic importance of the units. First, the state of the units was evaluated using a health index (HI) with a fuzzy logic algorithm. Then, the strategic importance of each unit was assessed using a weighting technique to obtain the importance index (II). Finally, the analyzed units with similar HI and II were arranged into a set of clusters using the k-means clustering technique. A fleet of 19 PTs was used to validate the proposed method. The obtained results are also provided to demonstrate the viability and feasibility of the assessment model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a14110319","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]],"date-time":"2021-11-01T11:47:38Z","timestamp":1635767258000},"page":"319","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Risk Assessment Algorithm for Power Transformer Fleets Based on Condition and Strategic Importance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9287-1027","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diego A.","family":"Zaldivar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electric Power of the National, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan 5400, Argentina"}]},{"given":"Andres A.","family":"Romero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electric Power of the National, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan 5400, Argentina"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2995-1147","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio R.","family":"Rivera","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot\u00e1 11132, Colombia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"R\u00f8nneberg, T. 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