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Improving Economic Dispatch through Transmission Switching: New Opportunities for a Smart Grid

Publication Date: September 2009
Publishing Organization: U.S. Department of Energy, University of California Berkeley
Format: PDF
Authors: Kory Hedman, Shmuel Oren
Keywords:

cnls, dispatch, doe, economic operations, generation unit commitment, lanl, los alamos, n-1 reliability standard, network topology, optimizing, smart grid, university of california berkeley

Summary:

This DOE presentation was presented at the CNLS Smart Grid Seminar Series at Los Alamos National Lab on September 8, 2009. It reviews recent work by the authors demonstrating that optimizing the network topology with generation unit commitment and dispatch can significantly improve the economic operations while maintaining the traditional n-1 reliability standard.

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