Operational-planning software realizes production cost savings

Author

Erwin, Sam R. ; Wood, James T. ; Griffith, Jim S. ; Le, Khai D. ; Day, John T. ; Yin, Chi K.

Author_Institution

Southern Co. Services Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

Volume

4

Issue

3

fYear

1991

fDate

7/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

60

Abstract

A comprehensive operation-planning software package installed in 1981 to forecast system loads, optimally schedule thermal and hydro units, estimate future prices of power transactions, and perform postanalysis is described. System operation goals and operational planning needs are discussed. The software is described. The use of postanalysis to document savings is examined. When the postanalysis program began in 1986, the overall performance index for the pool was 96.5. Three years later, this index went up to 99.452, meaning that the pool was operated at about 0.548% away from the perfect optimum.<>

Keywords

power engineering computing; power system planning; scheduling; hydro unit scheduling; operation-planning software package; power transactions; production cost savings; thermal unit scheduling; Clocks; Costs; Energy management; Monitoring; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Power industry; Power system management; Production systems; Thermal loading;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Applications in Power, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0895-0156

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/67.85965

Filename

85965