An engineering-economic approach to transmission planning under market and regulatory uncertainties: WECC case study

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 307-317

  Munoz, Francisco D ^a   Hobbs, Benjamin F ^a   Ho, Jonathan L ^a   Kasina, Saamrat ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; planning; renewable portfolio standards; stochastic programming; uncertainty; Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION; KIRCHHOFF'S VOLTAGE LAW; NON-LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD; TRANSMISSION INVESTMENTS; TRANSMISSION PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY; WESTERN ELECTRICITY COORDINATING COUNCILS;

COMMERCE; COSTS; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRICITY; PLANNING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; TOOLS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84891561294     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2279654     Document Type: Article

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