SYSGEN: production costing and reliability model user documentation
The objective of this study was to find the least cost operating schedule subject to operating constraints and to find the frequency, duration, and probability of loss of load for a given mix of generation units and given customer demand. The program uses a modified Booth-Baleriaux technique. This methodology treats plant outages as randomly occurring loads on other plants in a utility system. The program can handle up to 34 time periods with up to 52 subperiods each and 300 generating units with five valve points. There can be up to 50 conventional hydro units and up to 50 storage units. The program requires the following general information: discout rate, customer load shapes, O and M and fuel escalation rates, immature forced outage correction factors, and for each generating unit: capacity plant lifetime, fuel cost, variable and fixed O and M costs, heat rate, mature forced outage rate, and a maintenance schedule. Optional inputs are load frequency curves, spinning reserve requirements, loading order, and for generating units: mean time repair, spinning reserve cost, and penalty factor. Three levels of output are: Initial and final load curves, system loss-of-load probability, unserved energy, and the total energy generated; all of the above, plus yearly report of the energy generated and the associated costs for each unit; and all of the above plus an echo report of the input data and additional information on conventional and pumped hydro units.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC01-76ET29110
- OSTI ID:
- 6131675
- Report Number(s):
- MIT-EL-79-020; ON: DE81029652
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COST
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
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