Assessment and enhancement of available transfer capability and cost effective congestion management in deregulated power system

Abstract

Electric power systems throughout the world are being restructured newlineto introduce competition among the market participants and bring several newlinecompetitive opportunities Two important tasks an Independent System newlineOperator ISO has to perform in a restructured power system are newlinei assessment and announcement of Available Transfer Capability ATC and newlineii congestion management Congestion management comprises congestion newlinerelief and equitable congestion cost allocation newlineThis thesis is mainly concerned with these twin problems of newlineassessment of ATC and congestion management comprising both congestion newlinerelief and congestion cost allocation in a multitransaction framework newlinecomprising both pool transaction and bilateralmultilateral transactions In this newlinethesis two types of multilateral trading are investigated newline newline