Title :
Economic dispatch simulator for short- and mid-term planning of thermal units operation
Author :
Hiyama, Takashi ; Koga, Seiji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kumamoto Univ., Japan
Abstract :
An economic dispatch (ED) simulator has been developed for the daily and weekly operation planning of thermal units in the Matlab/Simulink environment. The well known equal incremental cost method has been utilized to determine the load dispatch among thermal units in the study system considering several constraints. A simple rule has also been proposed for the unit commitment. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed ED simulator, a weekly planning of 23 thermal units has been simulated with fairly good reduction of the fuel cost compared with the fuel cost in the actual operation
Keywords :
costing; power generation dispatch; power generation economics; power generation planning; power generation scheduling; power system analysis computing; thermal power stations; Matlab/Simulink; computer simulation; daily operation planning; economic dispatch simulator; equal incremental cost method; fuel cost reduction; mid-term planning; short-term planning; thermal power plant operation; weekly operation planning; Costs; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Fuel economy; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Power system planning; Power system simulation; Thermal engineering; Thermal loading;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2000. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5935-6
DOI :
10.1109/PESW.2000.850050
