EECE 670 Power Systems Planning (3 credits)

Catalog description
The course investigates electric energy and peak demand forecasts using weather sensitive, time
curve, autoregressive and causal models; generation reliability evaluation, loss of energy
expectation, energy limited units, probabilistic production costing, generating capacity expansion
analysis, and maintenance scheduling; operational planning, unit commitment, Hydrothermal
coordination; power system security classification, contingency analysis, external equivalents,
optimal power flow; planning in a competitive electric power environment.
Required or electie
Graduate or enior !ear "lective
Prerequisites
#y course$
%undamentals of &ower ystems 'nalysis ("")" *+,-
#y topic$
)ircuit analysis, phasor domain analysis, power flow formulation, numerical methods,
basic probability theory
!e"t#oo$ and Re%erence &aterial
.eferences$
Restructured Electrical Power Systems: Operation, Trading, and Volatility, /.
hahidepour, /. 'lomoush$ /arcel 0ekker (122,-
Power Generation Operation and Control, 3ood and 3ollenberg, 4ohn 3iley and ons,
1
nd
"dition, ,556
Modern Power System Planning, 3ang 7 /c0onald, /cGraw Hill, ,55*
Power Systems Restructuring, 8lic, Galiana, and %ink ("d-, 9luwer, 1222.
Reliability Ealuation o! Power Systems, #illinton 7 'llan, &itman, 1
nd
"dition, ,556
:ecture ;otes
Course o#'ecties
The objectives of this course are: Correlates to Program
Educational Objectives
,. To provide students with the principles and algorithms used in
load forecasting, reliability analysis, generation expansion
planning, operational planning, and network planning.
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1. To use available and to partially develop software tools to
carry out practical system load forecasts, generation plans,
maintenance schedules, optimal power flows and learn how
to economically interpret the results provided by such tools.
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<. To develop in students an appreciation of the environmental
and economic issues and how they interrelate in electric
power system generation and transmission planning
problems
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*. To promote teamwork among students and effective
communication skills through course pro=ects and term
papers.
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!opics coered +> min lectures
,. #ackground and basic principles 1
1. :oad %orecast *
<. Generation .eliability "valuation >
*. ?perational &lanning >
>. ecurity 'ssessment *
6. ?ptimal &ower %low 'nalysis *
+. &lanning in a competitive environment *
Course outcomes
At the end of the course, students: Correlation to Program
Outcomes
High Med. Low
,. @nderstand the basic principles, algorithms, and data
requirements of electric demand forecasting and apply
these algorithms in real problems.
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1. @nderstand generation reliability algorithms and how to
use them in production costing, maintenance scheduling
and generation expansion analysis.
(a-, (e-, (k- (=-, (c- (d)
<. @nderstand the formulation of different operational
planning problems that include economic load dispatch,
unit commitment, and hydroAthermal coordination. To
carry out operational planning studies for practical
systems.
(a-, (e-, (k- (=-, (c- (d)
*. @nderstand the security classification of system states
and how to perform contingency analysis studies to
assess system security in planning proposals or
operational configurations.
(a-, (e-, (k- (=-, (c- (d)
>. @nderstand the optimal power flow formulation and
know the economic interpretation provided by its results
and is able to apply it to practical system studies.
(a-, (e-, (k- (=-, (c- (d)
6. @nderstand the issues of congestion management and
marginal pricing of electricity associated with operating
the system in a competitive environment and how these
can be deduced from optimal power flow studies.
(a-, (e-, (k- (=-
Resources o% t(e course
:ecture notes, references, previous tests, research papers, /oodle
Ealuation met(ods
/idterm (<>B-, final exam (<>B-, 'ssignments (1>B-, )lass &articipation (>B-
Pro%essional component
"ngineering topics$ 6> B
General education$ ,2 B
/athematics and basic sciences$ 1> B
Computer usage
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Person(s) w(o prepared t(is description and date o% preparation
ami 9araki, %ebruary 12,,