Rural electrication planning software (LAPER)

Author

Fronius, Rainer ; Gratton, Marc

Author_Institution

Electr. de France, France

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Today, 40% of the world population need rural electrication (RE). The World Bank and other donors for RE-projects need a clear assessment of the viability and sustainability of the proposed electricity generation facility. Electricite de France (EDF) and the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) have developed LAPER, a planning software package using a GIS-based method for the electrication of vast regions. This program determines a masterplan using geographical data enhanced by socio-economic inquiries. After choosing the optimal means of electrication (MV-network, PV-panels, gensets, micro-wind generators or micro-hydrogenerators) for each village, LAPER calculates an investment plan and an electrication schedule for the region, taking into account political, financial and geographical criteria. The results are stored graphically and by tables in the GIS

Keywords

electric power generation; geographic information systems; investment; power system CAD; power system planning; software packages; EDF; Electricite de France; GIS; LAPER rural electrication planning software; MV power network; PV panels; electrication schedule; electricity generation facility; financial criteria; gensets; geographical criteria; geographical data; investment plan; micro-hydrogenerators; micro-wind generators; planning software package; political criteria; socio-economic inquiries; sustainability; viability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Electricity Distribution, 2001. Part 1: Contributions. CIRED. 16th International Conference and Exhibition on (IEE Conf. Publ No. 482)

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-735-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20010884

Filename

943043