Overview of RELCOMP, the reliability and cost model for electrical generation planning

Technical Report · Wed Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5809776· OSTI ID:5809776

Buehring, W. A.; Hub, K. A.; VanKuiken, J. C.

RELCOMP is a system-planning tool that can be used to assess the reliability and economic performance of alternative expansion patterns of electric-utility-generating systems. Given input information such as capacity, forced outage rate, number of weeks of annual scheduled maintenance, and economic data for individual units along with the expected utility load characteristics, the nonoptimizing model calculates a system maintenance schedule, the loss-of-load probability, unserved demand for energy, mean time between system failures to meet the load, required reserve to meet a specified system-failure rate, expected energy generation from each unit, and system energy cost. Emergency interties and firm purchases can be included in the analysis. The calculation can be broken down into five distinct categories: maintenance scheduling, system reliability, capacity requirement, energy allocation, and energy cost. This brief description of the program is intended to serve as preliminary documentation for RELCOMP until a more-complete documentation is prepared. In addition to this documentation, a sample problem and a detailed input description are available from the authors.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5809776
• Report Number(s): ANL/EES-TM-71
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ALLOCATIONS
CAPACITY
COST
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY MODELS
MAINTENANCE
OUTAGES
PERFORMANCE
PLANNING
POWER GENERATION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RELIABILITY
REVIEWS