Abstract:
The evaluation of
ABSTRACT
reliability and production cost of each
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alternative potential plan are two essential steps in generation
expansion planning. Utilities interconnect with each other to decrease
the production cost and increase the reliability of the global as
well as individual system. The methodology to evaluate the
reliability and the production cost is well established for single
area system and also quite efficient methodology is available
for two area interconnected systems. However, an efficient
methodology of evaluating
interconnected systems (more
the production cost for multi-area
than two system ) has not yet been
developed.
This thesis presents a methodology to evaluate the production
cost of multi-area interconnected electrical power systems. The
methodology is an extension of the segmentation method for evaluating
the production cost of two area interconnected systems. The accuracy
of the developed methodology is justified through a small example
which can be solved by using a pocket calculator. The methodology is
also applied to a realistic interconnected system.
