METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION

摘要

An economic dispatch program optimally allocates load demand specifying re al power and reactive power to be generated by a power plant among various powe r generators in a manner so that each of the power generators are operated within its optimal operating space as defined by a reactive capability curve. Allocating a power demand with consideration of the reactive capability curves of the power generators results in optimal generation of real power and reactive power as specified by the load demand. Alternatively, the economic dispatch program allocates load demand specifying real power an d reactive power to be delivered by a power grid among various power plants wherein one or more of the various power plants have capacity limits exhibited by reactive capabili ty curves.