Electric power systems consist of power generation stations, transmission and distribution circuits, substations, and associated transformers, voltage control equipment, and protection equipment, together with equipment that facilitates monitoring, communication, and information processing to enable decision and control.
The process to plan and build such facilities takes many years. The length of time between the planning analysis and the initial start-up of the equipment is referred to as the planning horizon. For example, many regulatory bodies require that electric utilities have a 10-20 year planning horizon for generation facilities. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) requires in Planning Standard TPL-005-0 that “each Regional Reliability Organization shall annually conduct reliability assessments of its respective existing and planned Regional Bulk Electric System (generation and transmission facilities) for,”
• The current year (winter and summer),
• Near-term planning horizons (years one through five),
• Longer-term planning horizons (years six through ten).
There are a number of reasons for this long decision horizon, all of which emphasize the importance of planning as an essential function, as follows:
1. Financing: The equipment is capital-intensive, i.e., expensive, requiring careful analysis and decision to minimize financial risk exposure on the part of the equipment owners.
2. Multiple organizations: The equipment will be interconnected within an overall system that is owned and operated by many different organizations, and so each affected organization must have access to information necessary to consider the impacts of the new equipment on their operations.
3. Land: The power generation stations, the transmission and distribution circuits, and the substations require significant land areas necessitating engagement in what can be extremely complex land acquisition processes.
4. Environmental impacts: Many facilities have environmental effects, for example
· Power plant impacts, including impact of fossil fired plants on water usage and emissions, ability to store wastes from nuclear plants, impact of hydroelectric facilities on fish-kill and recreational activities, and wind turbine noise and wind turbine impact on birds.
· Affects of overhead transmission lines including visual aesthetics, corona-induced audible noise, communications interference (particular AM radio), and induced currents in underlying objects from high electric field levels.
5. Cost of energy: The cost of electric energy, which is heavily determined by planning decisions, directly affects all of us via our own residential use of it. In addition, we are all indirectly affected by the cost of electric energy in two ways:
· Through our dependence on industrial and commercial organizations that pass on their cost of electric energy to us through the products and services that we purchase from them.
· Through our ability to compete in international markets (including those within our own country) and the related impact that has on job growth and gross domestic product (GDP).
6. Reliability: Decisions on which equipment to build and when, together with the rate of load growth and the retirements of old equipment, directly impact the reliability levels of the interconnected grids. These reliability levels, or conversely, the extent to which customers see interruptions and/or transmission unavailability causes generation owners to use higher priced energy, also affect the cost of energy.
| Lecture number | Description | Lecturer | Resources |
| 1 | Course introduction | McCalley | |
| 2 | Planning processes | McCalley | |
| 3 | Planning introduction | McCalley | |
| 4 | Planning introduction | McCalley | |
| 5 | Engineering economics | McCalley | |
| 6 | Generation technologies | McCalley | |
| 7 | Generation technologies | McCalley | |
| 8 | Microeconomic theory & real time electricity markets | McCalley | California Crisis:PDF |
| 9 | Electricity markets | McCalley | |
| 10 | Electricity markets | McCalley | Paper on pay-at-MC: PDF |
| 11 | Electricity markets | McCalley | UC CPLEX data:File |
| 12 | Environmental legislation | McCalley | |
| 13 | Power system reliability evaluation | McCalley | |
| 14 | Production costing and resource planning methods | McCalley | |
| | Reliability planning | *Duebner | |
| 15 | EXAM 1 | | |
| 16 | MISO Planning Approach | *Moeller | Click here: PDF |
| 17 | Energy�planning processes | *Hecker | |
| 18 | Production costing | McCalley | Paper: PDF |
| 19 | Resource planning: EGEAS/Strategist | *Smith | |
| 20 | Production simulation & costing | *Zhou | |
| 21 | Reliability (LOLE) evaluation for G&T adequacy - MARS | *Rao | |
| 22 | Overview of planning process | *Osborn | |
| 23 | Production simulation & costing | *Ni | |
| 24 | Transmission Lines: AC Design | McCalley | X Tables: PDF R Tables: PDF Ling pap: PDF StClair Pap: PDF |
| 25 | Regulatory processes | *Kaman | |
| 26 | Transmission Lines: AC Design | McCalley | See notes from 10/20. |
| 27 | Transmission Lines: AC Design | McCalley | |
| 28 | Transmission Lines: AC Design | McCalley | |
| | EXAM 2 | | |
| 29 | Plexos Tutorial | McCalley | |
| 30 | Transmission Lines: DC Design | McCalley | CIGRE paper:PDF |
| 31 | Transmission Lines: DC Design | McCalley | |
| 32 | National Planning Tools | McCalley | |
| 33 | National Planning Tools | McCalley | |
| 34 | National Planning Tools | McCalley | |
| 35 | National Planning Tools | McCalley | |
| 36 | Models and algorithms in the industry tools. | McCalley | |
| 37 | Models and algorithms in the industry tools. | McCalley | |
| 38 | Optimization methods for planning | McCalley | |
| 39 | Optimization methods for planning (Screening curves) | McCalley | |
| 40 | Optimization methods for planning | McCalley | |
| 41 | Treatment of uncertainty | McCalley | |
| 42 | Treatment of uncertainty | McCalley |
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