ممدوح سعود ثنيان آل سعود

 

Topics:

1.                Load Types and Load Forecasting

1.1             Residential load characteristics

1.2             Commercial load characteristics

1.3             Industrial load characteristics

1.4             Other load types

1.5             Load Forecasting

2.                Economic Aspects of Power systems

2.1     Cost of electric power systems

2.2     Economic characteristics of generating units

 

3                   Reliability Aspects of Power Systems

3.1     Basic probability theory

3.2     Load and capacity models

3.2.1  Load duration curve (LDC)

3.2.2  Forced outage rate (FOR)

3.2.3  Capacity outage probability table (COPT)

3.3     Reliability Indices of Power Systems

3.3.1  Loss of load expectation (LOLE)

3.3.2  Expected demand not served (EDNS)

3.3.3  Expected energy not served (EENS)

3.3.4  Energy Index of reliability (EIR)

3.3.5  Generating unit energy production

3.4     Network Modeling for Reliability Evaluation

3.4.1  Series systems

3.4.2  Parallel systems

3.4.3  Series/parallel systems

3.4.4  More complex systems

3.4.5  Time-dependent systems