SAGEWASP. Optimal Electric Utility Expansion
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (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:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 145763
- Report Number(s):
- ESTSC-000323I037000; 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: 1 Nov 1977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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