Electric utility investment practices and operation have been designed to ensure affordable, reliable electricity service to consumers. Affordability and reliability require thoughtful, long-term investments in generation and transmission as well as sophisticated operation of these assets. Economic dispatch focuses on short-term operational decisions, specifically how to best use available resources to meet customers’ electricity needs reliably and at lowest cost. Ensuring the best use of available resources is much more than a mechanical process of minimizing the total variable cost of electricity production. In seeking lowest-cost production, economic dispatch practices must take into account several factors, including: the continuous variation in loads and generators’ inability to respond instantaneously; the need to maintain reserves and plan for contingencies in order to maintain reliability; and the scheduling requirements imposed by environmental laws, hydrological conditions, and fuel limitations.
Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Module -1 POWER System Components
1.1 Generation Overview (incl; solar & wind)
1.2 Transmission Systems
1.3 Distribution & Consumption
1.4 Protection & Telecommunications
1.5 Electrical Fundamentals
1.6 Power System Characteristics and
1.7 Control of Voltage
1.8 Power System Characteristics &
1.9 Control of Frequency
1.10 Emergency Control Measures
1.11 Frequency Response of Prime Movers
Module -2 Dispatch & Energy Control
2.1 Supervisory Control & Data
2.2 Acquisition (SCADA)
2.3 System Analysis Monitoring and Control
2.4 Sectionalizing and Isolation
2.5 Emergency Situations
2.6 Outage Management
2.7 Distribution Automation
Module -3 Substation Integration and Automation Technical Issues
3.1 Control Centers Hierarchy
3.2 System Responsibilities
3.3 Substation Automation Applicability
3.4 Benefits of Open System Approach
3.5 System Architecture
3.6 Data Acquisition and Control Level
3.7 Information Infrastructure Level
3.8 Substation Host Processor
Module -4 Management Systems
4.1 Electrical system automation Supervisory control and data acquisition(SCADA)
4.2 EMS functional scope
4.3 DMS functional scope
4.4 Application in power system
Module- 5 SCADA System Components
5.1 Hardware
5.2 Software
5.3 Adaptation Work
5.4 Modern Control Center Architecture s
5.5 SCADA System Integration
Module- 6 Communication
6.1 Communication Standards and Protocols
6.2 Communication Hardware
6.3 Data Communication System
6.4 Voice Communication
6.5 Communication Channel Configuration6.6 Communication Media
Module -7 Economic Dispatch
7.1 What is Economic Dispatch?
7.2 “Economic” Dispatch vs. “Efficient” Dispatch
7.3 Security-Constrained Unit Commitment
7.4 Grid Conditions that Constrain Economic Dispatch
7.5 Resource Considerations that Constrain Economic Dispatch Security-Constrained Economic
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7.6 Current Practices in Building the Economic Dispatch
7.7 Resource Stack
7.8 What’s Left for Economic Merit Order Dispatch?
7.9 Current Practices for Optimizing Dispatch
7.10 Variations in Economic Dispatch Practices
7.11 How Large Should a Dispatch Area Be?
7.12 Economic Dispatch and Reliability
This course is suitable for Operation Engineers, Planning Engineers, Dispatch Operator, Studies Engineer and Dispatch Supervisor