EE 552

Course Schedule
Energy system planning (Spring 2024)

T, Th, 4:10-5:25, Howe 1252 and on-line

Professor James McCalley

Dr. McCalley Home Page

 

Schedule

Course objectives

Course structure

 

Week

Class #

Description

Highlighted sub-topics

Resources

Assign-ment

HW Solu-tions

Exam Solu-tions

1/16

1

Course introduction

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1/18

2

Intro to energy system planning

Local, regional, national planning; RTO planning processes, generation interconnection queues, capacity procurement, trans exp planning, interreg planning; macrogrid design; Siting & permitting; offshore; integrity; exp planning tools

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Readings: Chaps 2,3 in this: PDF

 

1/23

3

Engineering economics

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3-gen assessment: XLS

ScreeningCurvesNoTax: XLS

ScreeningCurvesWithTax: XLS

 

 

 

1/25

4

Engineering economics

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HW#1: pdf

 

1/30

5

Generation costs

Lazard’s; NREL Annual Technology Baseline (ATB)

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2/1

6

Resource technologies

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Additional reading: PDF

 

 

2/6

7

Resource technologies

 

 

 

2/8

8

Reliability evaluation

Integrity (Rel, res, flex, adapt); fast convolution methods

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Additional readings     U16, U18

 

 

2/13

9

Reliability evaluation

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2/15

10

Reliability evaluation

 

 

 

 

2/20

11

Reliability evaluation

NERC TPL004-1 (P1-P7) and Markov models

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HW2, due 2/27

 

 

2/22

12

Generation expansion

 

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2/27

13

Generation expansion

 

 

 

2/29

14

Capacity markets

 

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HW3 pdf

File1,file2,file3,file4,file5, file6, Due 3/21

 

 

3/5

15

Production cost models

Flexibility modeling; demand response

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Exam 1: pdf, due 3/26

 

3/7

16

Decomposition methods

 

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3/11-3/15

SPRING BREAK

3/19

17

Decomposition methods

 

 

 

 

 

3/21

18

Trans line AC design

MISO cost document

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Line tables: PDF

Line tables with resistance: PDF

MISO1

 

MISO2

 

 

3/26

19

Trans line AC design

 

 

Exam 1 due

 

 

3/28

20

Transmission line DC design

 

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Reading: PDF PDF

 

4/2

21

Transmission line DC design

 

 

 

 

4/4

22

Transmission line DC design

 

 

 

 

 

4/9

23

Other transmission technologies

Substitutability of storage and transmission

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HTLS/HSIL: PDF

 

4/11

24

Transmission expansion planning

 

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Reading: PDF1, PDF2

 

 

4/16

25

Transmission expansion planning

 

 

 

 

4/18

26

Co-optimization models

Macrogrid design; sharing; translation function

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InClassQuestions: PDF

 

 

4/23

27

Co-optimization models

DER modeling

 

 

 

 

4/25

28

Treatment of uncertainty

Adaptive expansion planning; Adaptability; Folding horizon simulation

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4/30

29

Treatment of uncertainty

 

 

 

 

 

5/2

30

Last topics

Planning flow diagram

Final Exm assigned

5/6-5/10

Final Exam Week: Final exam due on 5/6/2021