TY - GEN
T1 - Defining optimal production capacity in a purely hydroelectric power system
AU - Hreinsson, Egill Benedikt
AU - Barroso, Luiz Augusto
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The conventional definition of system and plant firm capacity, in a thermally dominated power system, is often simply the installed MW adjusted by plant availability. A hydro dominated system requires an entirely different and expanded definition due to the complex interactions resulting from temporal reservoir operational decisions. In this paper several economic definitions of capacity are presented and analyzed based on the need for this concept in the operation and expansion of hydro dominated systems.
AB - The conventional definition of system and plant firm capacity, in a thermally dominated power system, is often simply the installed MW adjusted by plant availability. A hydro dominated system requires an entirely different and expanded definition due to the complex interactions resulting from temporal reservoir operational decisions. In this paper several economic definitions of capacity are presented and analyzed based on the need for this concept in the operation and expansion of hydro dominated systems.
KW - Firm energy
KW - Hydroelectric-thermal power generation
KW - Optimal design
KW - Optimal project sequencing
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:8644284268
SN - 0780382374
T3 - Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation, Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT2004)
SP - 178
EP - 183
BT - Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation, Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT2004)
T2 - Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation, Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT2004)
Y2 - 5 April 2004 through 8 April 2004
ER -