POWER SYSTEM PLANNING (18EE824)

POWER SYSTEM PLANNING

Subject Code 18EE824 
CIE Marks 40
Number of Lecture Hours/Week :(L:T:P) 3:0:0 
SEE Marks 60
Credits 03 
Exam Hours 03

Course Learning Objectives:

· To discuss primary components of power system planning namely load furcating, evaluation of energy resources, provisions of electricity Act and Energy Conservation Act.
· To explain planning methodology for optimum power system expansion, various types of generation, transmission and distribution
· To explain forecasting of anticipated future load requirements of both demand and energy by deterministic and statistical techniques using forecasting tools.
· To discuss methods to mobilize resources to meet the investment requirement for the power sector
· To perform economic appraisal to allocate the resources efficiently and take proper investment decisions
· To discuss expansion of power generation and planning for system energy in the country
· To discuss evaluation of operating states of transmission system, their associated contingencies and determination of the stability of the system for worst case conditions
· To discuss principles of distribution planning, supply rules, network development and the system studies
· To discuss reliability criteria for generation, transmission, distribution and reliability evaluation and analysis.
· To discuss grid reliability, voltage disturbances and their remedies.
· To discuss planning and implementation of electric –utility activities designed to influence consumer uses of electricity.
· To discuss market principles and the norms framed by CERC for online trading and exchange in the interstate power market. 

Module-1

Power System: Planning Principles, Planning Process, Project Planning, Power Development, National
and Regional Planning, Enterprise Resources Planning, Planning Tools, Power Planning Organisation,
Scenario Planning. Electricity Forecasting: Load Requirement, System Load, Electricity Forecasting, Forecasting Techniques, Forecasting Modelling, Spatial – Load Forecasting, Peak Load - Forecast, Reactive – Load Forecast, Unloading of a System.

Module-2

Power-SystemEconomics: Financial Planning, Techno – Economic Viability, Private Participation,
Financial Analysis, Economic Analysis, Transmission, Rural Electrification Investment, Total System
Analysis, Credit - Risk Assessment.
Generation Expansion: Generation Capacity and Energy, Generation Mix, Clean Coal Technologies
Renovation and Modernisation of Power Plants. ∎

Module-3

Transmission Planning: Transmission Planning Criteria, Right – of – Way, Network Studies, High – Voltage Transmission, HVDC Transmission, Conductors, Sub – Stations, Power Grid, Reactive Power
Planning, Energy Storage.

Module-4

Distribution: Distribution Deregulation, Planning Principles, Electricity – Supply Rules, Criteria and Standards, Sub – Transmission, Basic Network, Low Voltage Direct Current Electricity, Distribution(continued): Upgradation of Existing Lines and Sub – Stations, Network Development, System Studies, Urban Distribution, Rural Electrification. Reliability and Quality: Reliability Models, System Reliability, Reliability and Quality Planning, Functional Zones, Generation Reliability Planning Criteria, Transmission Reliability Criteria, Distribution Reliability, Reliability Evaluation, Grid Reliability, Quality of Supply.

Module-5

Demand-Side Planning: Demand Response, Demand – Response Programmes, Demand– Response Technologies, Energy Efficiency, Energy - Economic Products, Efficient – Energy Users, Supply – Side Efficiency, Energy Audit. Electricity Market: Market Principles, Power Pool, Independent System Operator, Distribution System Operator, Power Markets, Market Rules, Bidding, Trading, Settlement System, Merchant Power, Differential Electricity, Congestion Management, Ancillary Services, Hedging, Smart Power Market.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the student will be able to:

· Discuss primary components of power system planning, and planning methodology for optimum
power system expansion and load forecasting.
· Understand economic appraisal to allocate the resources efficiently and appreciate the investment decisions
· Discuss the expansion of power generation and planning for system energy in the country, evaluation of operating states of the transmission system, their associated contingencies and the stability of the system.
· Discuss principles of distribution planning, supply rules, network development and the system studies
· Discuss reliability criteria for generation, transmission, distribution and reliability evaluation and analysis, grid reliability, voltage disturbances and their remedies
· Discuss planning and implementation of electric –utility activities, market principles and the norms framed.

Question paper pattern:

· The question paper will have ten questions.
· Each full question is for 16 marks.
· There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full question) from each module.
· Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
· Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Textbook:

1 Electric Power Planning A. S. Pabla McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition,