SBIR Phase I: A Simulation Tool for the Analysis and Visualization of Market Power in Electric Power Systems

PowerWorld公司将开发一个新的软件包，以帮助电力行业了解市场力量所涉及的问题，即在一段时间内提高利润率的能力。这是公用事业行业放松管制的一个关键问题，这将导致传统上垂直整合的公用事业公司拆分为相对独立的实体。开发的软件包将包含有效的可视化技术，旨在帮助那些没有电力工程背景的人理解市场力量问题，并将基于伊利诺伊大学电力和能源系统组的研究人员在T. Overbye教授的指导下开发的用户友好和高度互动的模拟软件包。

PowerWorld Corp. will develop a new software package to help the electric power industry understand the issues involved in market power, the ability to raise rates profitable over a period of time. This is a key issues in the deregulation of the utility industry, which will result in an unbundling of the traditionally vertically integrated untilities, into relatively independent entities. The software package developed will contain effective visualisation techniques designed to facilitate the comprehension of market power issues by those who do not have a background in electrical power engineering, and will be based on a user-friendly and highly interactive simulation package developed by researchers at the Univ. of Illinois Power and Energy Systems Group under the direction of Prof. T. Overbye.