Winter 2019: ECE666 Power Systems Operation

Assignment-3
Submission due: Friday 5th April 2019, 4:30 PM
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Question-1: A 4-area inter-connected power system is shown below. A transaction of 1000 MW
takes place between two parties, injecting in area-1 and extracting in area-4. In each area, the
flows on the “limiting facilities”, arising from this transaction, are shown in the parenthesis.
10
00
M
W

Area-1 Area-3
80%
(5%) (14%)

20

90
% %
15

%
Area-2 Area-4
10%
(10%) (11%)

10
00
M
W
The available loading capacity (ALC) on each limiting facilities are given as under:
Facility ALC Facility ALC
Area-1 70 MW Tie 1-2 400 MW
Area-2 200 MW Tie 1-3 1200 MW
Area-3 130 MW Tie 2-3 250 MW
Area-4 175 MW Tie 2-4 200 MW
Tie 3-4 900 MW
a. Determine if the above transaction is feasible.
b. Otherwise determine the ATC for the interconnection, and which facility determines the
ATC value in this case.

Question-2: Utility-A has three generators Gen-1, Gen-2 and Gen-3 whose generating capacity
and forced outage rates (FOR) are given as under:

Capacity, FOR Innage

MW
Gen-1 200 0.05 0.95
Gen-2 250 0.03 0.97
Gen-3 400 0.04 0.96

Determine the cumulative outage probability table and hence the LOLP using the convolution
algorithm for a load of (i) 700 MW (ii) 600 MW and (iii) 550 MW.

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