A cooperative expert system for transmission expansion planning of electrical power systems

Author

Teive, R.C.G. ; Silva, E.L. ; Fonseca, L.G.S.

Author_Institution

Fed. Univ. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

636

Lastpage

642

Abstract

This paper describes a cooperative expert system for managing the transmission expansion planning process, taking into account the selection of feasible transmission routes, as well as the definition of the expansion plan itself. The use of an expert system is proposed to create a planning environment, which can not only emulate the human expert reasoning, but also represent appropriately all heuristic knowledge related to this problem. The main point of this system is the fact that it is able to define feasible alternatives for the expansion of the electrical transmission system. Afterwards, the expert system executes a network flows program, which determines the minimum cost expansion plan. The developed prototype is tested with a realistic system of 500 busbars

Keywords

expert systems; load flow; power system analysis computing; power system planning; transmission network calculations; busbars; cooperative expert system; expansion plan definition; feasible transmission route selection; heuristic knowledge; human expert reasoning; minimum cost expansion plan; network load flows program; planning environment; power systems; transmission expansion planning; Costs; Expert systems; Humans; Investments; Power generation economics; Power system management; Power system planning; Power system reliability; Process planning; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.667393

Filename

667393