Embedded power generation

Over the last few years, Malaysia has experienced a rapid economic growth resulting in an ever-increasing demand of electricity. This has prompted Malaysia´s government to invite private power companies to build, own and operate power generation facilities to meet the growing needs of electric power in the country. Recently, all private power generation plants in Malaysia are subject to central dispatch by TNB (Tenaga Nasional Berhad) and respond directly to the national electricity demand. In this paper, the authors study: (i) the use of software for modelling and analysing of embedded power plant. This project consists the identification of one of the power generation plants of an independent power provider (IPP); (ii) use of software to develop a model of the power generation plant and its transmission and distribution network; (iii) use the model to study the power flow and losses of the embedded power system distributed directly to consumers instead of linking to the national grid; and (iv) study the possibility of using accurate models for continuous monitoring of embedded power plants