TITLE:
Obstacles Facing Developing Countries in Power System Planning
AUTHORS:
Abdullah M. Al-Shaalan
KEYWORDS:
Power System Planning, Developing Countries, Reliability Evaluation, System Cost, Outages Cost, Systems Interconnection, Load Uncertainty
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,
Vol.3 No.4,
April
13,
2015
ABSTRACT:
The problem of power system planning, due
to its complexity and dimensionality, is one of the most challenging problems
facing the electric power industry in developing as well as developed
countries. In planning phase, two of the most important decision-making
parameters are the reliability and costs. The latter includes both system
investment costs and outages costs. In this paper, these parameters are
described and the interrelation between them is evaluated. Some previous
approaches and developed techniques will he applied to a particular planning
problem in a developing country and some aspects having a significant impact on
the decision making process in the planning phase will be considered.