Deregulation of electricity power industry in Japan and the present practice of securing reliability in the transmission planning stage

Author

Kurikhara, I.

Author_Institution

Central Res. Inst. of Electr. Power Ind., Tokyo

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Jul 1999

Firstpage

143

Abstract

This paper outlines the situation of deregulation of the electric power industry in Japan. The partial electric energy market will be opened in 2000. Under the pressure to reduce the transmission cost, electric power companies are seeking a way to balance the cost with reliability. Though the current planning criteria of a transmission system are based on a deterministic method, there is a new trend to apply the probabilistic method experimentally for the verification of long-term soundness of investment and reliability. The new method of applying a concept of system margin to the conventional planning approach is also presented

Keywords

electricity supply industry; power transmission economics; power transmission planning; power transmission reliability; Japan; electric power companies; electricity power industry deregulation; investment; long-term soundness verification; partial electric energy market; probabilistic planning method; reliability; transmission cost reduction; transmission planning stage; Costs; Electricity supply industry; Electricity supply industry deregulation; Government; Investments; Power generation; Power supplies; Power system planning; Power system reliability; Power transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Edmonton, Alta.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5569-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESS.1999.784336

Filename

784336