OBJECT-ORIENTED SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT APPLICATION TO TRANSMISSION EPANSION PLANNING

Abstract

During the past two decades, liberalisation of electricity sectors has taken place in many countries, changing significantly the general industry framework. Existing simulation software tools have had to be adjusted in order to include the new industry requirements. This paper links the object-oriented approach with the new energy market structure focusing on the transmission expansion problem. A simulation software using JAVA-technology, called Deep-Edit, is developed to solve this problem in both, an interactive and an computer aided way. A dynamic transmission planning methodology (DTPM), using genetic algorithms, is developed inside Deep-Edit with the purpose of determining an economically adapted electric transmission system in a competitive open access environment.