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Title: SAGEWASP. Optimal Electric Utility Expansion

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:145755
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  1. Lakeland Electric and Water, FL (United States)

SAGE-WASP is designed to find the optimal generation expansion policy for an electrical utility system. New units can be automatically selected from a user-supplied list of expansion candidates which can include hydroelectric and pumped storage projects. The existing system is modeled. The calculational procedure takes into account user restrictions to limit generation configurations to an area of economic interest. The optimization program reports whether the restrictions acted as a constraint on the solution. All expansion configurations considered are required to pass a user supplied reliability criterion. The discount rate and escalation rate are treated separately for each expansion candidate and for each fuel type. All expenditures are separated into local and foreign accounts, and a weighting factor can be applied to foreign expenditures.

Research Organization:
Lakeland Electric and Water, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
145755
Report Number(s):
ESTSC-000323IPCAT00; NESC-744
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: Eleven disk files are created by the program and up to six of these are used by an individual program.; PBD: 10 Oct 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English