Economic Dispatch of Power Plants Course

Course Overview:

This detailed course focuses on the essence of economic dispatch and $power generation systems, their control, and their economic operation.

The participants will be well acquainted with the pursuit of economic dispatch, the impact of the transmission system, unit commitment problem, and the calculation of optimal power flow. 

Other important topics are the components of the Power System, SCADA, Substation automation, Communication protocols and Energy management systems. Other important topics of the course are control systems of the 21st century, regulatory impacts, and optimization opportunities. 

The course is aimed at power system analysts, engineers, regulatory consultants, and other specialists. This course provides participants practical approaches that one may employ to improve operational efficiency, reliability, and economic performance of power system operations.

Course Objectives:

The objectives of this course in economic dispatch include the desire to:-

• Acquaint participants with power generation systems, their operation in an economic model, and their control.
• Apply and gain an in-depth knowledge of economic dispatch
• Identify the characteristics of power generation unties and introduce them to the economic dispatch of thermal units and the methods of solution
• Discuss the transmission system effects, Unit commitment, and the generation with limited energy supply
• Implement the production cost models and be able to adapt the control of generation
• Explain the interchange of power and energy and their types and discuss the factors affecting the power system security
• Estimate power systems and calculate the optimal power flow
• Use new techniques of solving old problems and new problem areas that are arising from changes in the system development patterns, regulatory structures, and economics
• Introduce participants to the important “terminal” characteristics for thermal power generation systems.
• Introduce mathematical optimization methods and apply them to practical operating problems.
• Introduce methods for solving complicated problems involving both economic analysis and network analysis and illustrate these techniques with relatively simple problems.
• Introduce methods that are used in modern control systems for power generation systems.
• Introduce power system operation areas that are undergoing significant, evolutionary changes. This includes the discussion of new techniques for attacking old problems and new problem areas that are arising from changes in the system development patterns, regulatory structures, and economics.

Who Should Attend?

This course will be valuable to power system analysts and engineers, including generation and transmission planners, protection engineers, ISO/RTO technical staff, and operations supervisors. Others who will benefit include power developers and marketers, power exchange personnel, regulatory staff, and economic and management consultants.

Course Outlines:

Power System Components

• Generation Overview (including solar & wind)
• Transmission Systems
• Distribution & Consumption
• Protection & Telecommunications
• Electrical Fundamentals
• Voltage, Current, Power &Power Factor
• Voltage Drop and Limits
• Electrical Load phase relationships (lead-lag)
• Losses and Efficiency
• Power System Characteristics
• Control of Voltage
• Power System Characteristics &
• Control of Frequency
• Emergency Control Measures
• Frequency Response of Prime Movers

Dispatch & Energy Control

• Supervisory Control & Data
• Acquisition (SCADA)
• System Analysis Monitoring and Control
• Sectionalizing and Isolation
• Emergency Situations
• Outage Management
• Distribution Automation

Substation Integration and Automation Technical Issues

• Control Centers Hierarchy
• System Responsibilities
• Substation Automation Applicability
• Benefits of Open System Approach
• System Architecture
• Data Acquisition and Control Level
• Information Infrastructure Level
• Substation Host Processor

Management Systems

• Electrical system automation Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
• EMS functional scope
• DMS functional scope
• Application in power system
• Module-5 SCADA System Components
• Hardware
• Software
• Adaptation Work
• Modern Control Center Architectures
• • Redundancy
• • Distributed Function
• • Open System Design
• SCADA System Integration
• • Horizontal Integration
• • Vertical Integration

Communication

• Communication Standards and Protocols
• Communication Hardware
• Data Communication System
• Voice Communication
• Communication Channel Configuration-
• 6.6 Communication Media

Economic Dispatch

• What is Economic Dispatch?
• “Economic” Dispatch vs. “Efficient” Dispatch
• Security-Constrained Unit Commitment
• Grid Conditions that Constrain Economic Dispatch
• Resource Considerations that Constrain Economically
• Dispatch Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch
• Current Practices in Building the Economic Dispatch
• Resource Stack
• What’s Left for Economic Merit Order Dispatch?
• Current Practices for Optimizing Dispatch
• Variations in Economic Dispatch Practices
• How Large Should a Dispatch Area Be?
• Economic Dispatch and Reliability