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Plexos Tutorials Long - Term - Modelling - (II)

The document discusses long term modelling and focuses on three key areas: generation capacity expansion, transmission capacity expansion, and modelling long term constraints. It provides details on how to define generator properties for capacity expansion modeling and options for planned and economic generator retirements. It also outlines how transmission expansion, including both transmission line and interface expansion, can be modeled in PLEXOS to support security-constrained optimal power flow in long term planning studies.

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Plexos Tutorials Long - Term - Modelling - (II)

The document discusses long term modelling and focuses on three key areas: generation capacity expansion, transmission capacity expansion, and modelling long term constraints. It provides details on how to define generator properties for capacity expansion modeling and options for planned and economic generator retirements. It also outlines how transmission expansion, including both transmission line and interface expansion, can be modeled in PLEXOS to support security-constrained optimal power flow in long term planning studies.

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  • Generation Capacity Expansion
  • Transmission Capacity Expansion

Long Term Modelling (II)

Agenda

1 Generation Capacity Expansion

2 Transmission Capacity Expansion

3 Modelling and Decomposition of Long Term Constraints

4 Hydro Efficiency

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Generation Capacity
Expansion

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Generation Capacity Expansion

To correctly define a generation expansion candidate, you should define at least the following Generator
properties:
– [Max Capacity] in MW
– [Max Units Built]
– [Build Cost] which in $/kW
If your LT Plan is using Discount Rate, then also define:
– [Economic Life] in years
– [WACC] which is the discount rate applied to the project's costs
– And it is useful to also define: [FO&M Charge] in $/kW/year
This is in addition to the properties that define the production cost of the generator, such as Heat Rate, Fuel
Price and VO&M Charge.

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Retirements

• Planned Retirements • Economic Retirements

Property Value Unit Date from Property Value Unit Date From
Units 1 - Units 1 -

Units 0 - 01/05/23 Max Units Retired 1 - 01 January 2010


Min Units Retired 0 -
Min Units Retired 1 - 01 January 2020
Retirement Cost 9500 $000
Heat Rate 10 GJ/MWh
Heat Rate 10.1 GJ/MWh 01 January 2011
Heat Rate 10.201 GJ/MWh 01 January 2012
Heat Rate 10.93685 GJ/MWh 01 January 2020
Fixed O&M Charge 13 $/kW/year
Fixed O&M Charge 13.325 $/kW/year 01 January 2011
Fixed O&M Charge 13.65813 $/kW/year 01 January 2012
Fixed O&M Charge 16.23522 $/kW/year 01 January 2020

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Transmission Capacity
Expansion

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Transmission Expansion
General Description

• The planned addition/deletion of AC and DC lines from the system is supported by all OPF methods in
PLEXOS using the Line [Units] property.

• PLEXOS automatically recomputes the shift factors required to cope with the changes in topography.

• LT Plan supports all types of transmission constraints including security-constrained optimal power flow.

• Optimized transmission line expansion (using the [Max Units Built] property), retirement (using the [Max
Units Retired] property) in LT Plan works in much the same way as generation expansion.

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Transmission Expansion
Interface Expansion

• Expansion of existing transmission interfaces (via the Interface class) is a feature available to all OPF
methods in PLEXOS.
• Expansion is done in continuous units of megawatts, thus the only data required are:
– [Expansion Cost] in $MM/MW
– [Max Expansion] in MW
– [WACC] which is the weighted-average cost of capital for interface expansion

• Expansion using Interface objects is useful for both zonal/regional transmission and full-nodal AC
expansion. In the latter case:
– Define Interface objects for each AC path that can be expanded
– Remove the ‘normal’ flow limits on the Line objects in the path
– Define the expansion cost parameters and normal limits for the Interface objects
– Set the transmission detail option in LT Plan to “nodal”

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