System Reliability by Prediction of Generator Output and Losses in a Competitive Energy Market

In a competitive energy market, system reliability should be maintained at all times. Power system operation being of online in nature, the energy balance requirements must be satisfied to ensure reliable operation the system. To achieve this, information regarding the expected status of the system, the scheduled transactions and the relevant inputs necessary to make either a transaction contract or a transmission contract operational, have to be made available in real time. The real time procedure proposed, facilitates this. This paper proposes a quadratic curve learning procedure, which enables a generator-s contribution to the retailer demand, power loss of transaction in a line at the retail end and its associated losses for an oncoming operating scenario to be predicted. Matlab program was used to test in on a 24-bus IEE Reliability Test System, and the results are found to be acceptable.

Authors:

• Perumal Nallagownden
• Ravindra N. Mukerjee
• Syafrudin Masri

Keywords:

• Deregulation
• learning coefficients
• reliability
• prediction
• competitive energy market.

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