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EE 590F Course Project M, W 12-1:15, 1242 Howe Dr. Jim McCalley |
Description of Course Structure for EE 590F, Fall 2008
Overall Objective of the Class Project: The objective of this
assignment, with respect to the total effort of all students in the course, is
to implement state-of-the-art modeling and computational capabilities in
performing ener
Approach:
The following outlines the approach to be taken in this project. More details
1. Groups: Each student will be assigned to a group to perform
this assignment.
2. Analysis tools: Each group will be provided with an
analysis tool to perform their design.
3. Futures: Each group will identify a number of futures equal
to the number of students in the group.
4. Design objective: The design objective is to
develop a new transmission overlay for the
5. Design criteria: Each group will perform the design
to optimize several objectives.
6. Data: Some data will be provided, but you are free to enhance
it.
The above items will
be further described in the following sections. Additional information will be
provided during the semester.
Groups will be formed
based on the following criteria:
·
Each group will have at least one off-campus
student and one on-campus student.
·
Effort will be made to assign equal
number of students to each group.
·
Requests will be honored where possible,
to the extent that they do not inhibit application of the first two criteria.
2. Analysis tools
Use of commercial
grade tools is strongly encouraged. Off-campus students may make use of tools
available to them in their work place insofar as doing so does
is not in violation of
binding agreements. The following tools will be made available to students:
1. PLEXOS
– see http://www.plexossolutions.com/.
2. WASP-IV
– see http://www.adica.com/wasp_iv.html.
3. PROMOD
– see http://www1.ventyx.com/analytics/promod.asp.
4. STRATEGIST
– see http://www1.ventyx.com/analytics/Strategist.asp.
5. EGEAS
– see
Each group must
identify futures to be analyzed. The number of futures identified should equal
the number of students in the group, so that each student is responsible for
analyzing one future. Futures should be identified via assumptions on issues
viewed to be of high influence to the analysis outcome. Some of these issues
could be, for example,
·
Growth of traditional electric loads
·
Growth of transportation-related
electric loads
·
Cost of emitting greenhouse gases
·
Wind penetration level in different
regions
·
Natural gas prices
·
Ability to build transmission is
specific states
·
Cost of building nuclear plants and cost
of addressing nuclear wastes
·
Water availability in key river systems
throughout the country
·
Cost of clean-coal technologies such as
integrated gasification combined cycle units
·
Cost of solar generation technologies
·
Transmission and substation cost per
MW-mile by transmission voltage and construction type (e.g., 765kV, 765 kV
HSIL, 800 kV GIL, 800 kV HVDC)
Each group must
develop a new transmission overlay design for the
design that should be
considered as a starting point is given in Figure A below, a preliminary
proposal made by AEP. In this figure, all circuits represented in green
are new 765 kV
circuits. A very highly aggregated model of the nation’s existing electric
network is given in Figure B. Some groups may want or need to represent
the natural gas system
or the coal transportation system. Figures C and D illustrate highly aggregated
models for these systems that could be used.
Figure A: Proposed
electric overlay Figure B: Existing electric
system
Figure C: Natural gas production, storage, &
transportation Figure D: Coal production and transportation system
The design criteria, i.e.,
the criteria used to judge the desirability of each design, are as follows:
1. Cost:
The investment cost (net present worth) of the design should be minimized. The
operational cost (net present worth) of the design should be minimized.
2. Adequacy:
Demand should be met subject to loss of any one circuit.
3. Resiliency:
Short-term and mid-term electric ener
4. Sustainability:
Greenhouse gas emissions should be minimized. Reserves on depleteable fuels
(coal, gas, uranium) should remain high enough that each such fuel remains a
viable ener
The following data
will be provided for you.
1. Transmission
impedances of circuits indicated in Figure A above.
a. 765 kV Line & Transformer Impedance,
Rating, and Cost Data
b. HVDC
Data
2. Transmission
impedances of circuits indicated in Figure B above.
3. Generation,
load data, and link capacities corresponding to 2005 for the network models
given in Figures A and B.
4. Link
capacities corresponding to 2005 for the network models given in Figures C and
D.