CONTINGENCY OPTIMIZED ENERGY, RESERVE
CAPACITY AND REACTIVE POWER SCHEDULING
AND PRICING IN AN ELECTRICITY POOL
DISSERTATION
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of
Master of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering
Hitendra Dev Shakya
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
School of Engineering
Kathmandu University
December 2005
CONTINGENCY OPTIMIZED ENERGY, RESERVE
CAPACITY AND REACTIVE POWER SCHEDULING
AND PRICING IN AN ELECTRICITY POOL
DISSERTATION
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of
Master of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering
By
Hitendra Dev Shakya
Under Supervision of:
Dr Bhupendra Bimal Chhetri
Associate Professor
and
Mr. Roshan Bhattarai,
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
School of Engineering
Kathmandu University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
School of Engineering
Kathmandu University
December 2005
DEDICATION
With a prayer I dedicate it to my mother Laxmi Kumari Shakya and to the memory of
my father late Dr Janak Dev Shakya.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I gratefully acknowledge the supervisory support and guidance provided throughout
the thesis by Associate Professor Dr. Bhupendra Bimal Chhetri, Head of Department,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, and also Assistant Professor
Roshan Bhattarai, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, for the kind
supervisory assistance.
I must also acknowledge the great help that was the information received from the
emails from Prof. Carlos E Murillo Sanchez, Cornell University, and Dr Ray
Zimmerman, PSERC, Cornell University, both of whom had together developed the
program package MATPOWER and the particular MINOPF program that is used in
this thesis.
This is the place for acknowledging with thanks. So I wish to thank Kathmandu
University, the NORAD organization and Norwegian University of Science and
Technol