U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Research: Optimal Power Flow Mrethods in Competitive Electricity Markets

这份美国-巴西奖为伍斯特理工学院的Kevin A. Clements博士与巴西弗洛里亚诺波利斯的圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学的Antonio Simoes Costa教授合作研究竞争激烈的电力市场中最优的电力流动方法提供了支持。最优潮流是一个可以用来研究计算电力边际成本问题的工具。在计算这些成本时，必须考虑几个限制因素，例如单个发电机的物理下限和上限，输电线路的安全相关传输负载限制，以及所需的无功支持量。通过开发这个工具，他们可以对消费者需求弹性和消费者能源使用进行建模。他们将在巴西和美国同时开发模型。双方一直在研究这个问题，通过联合研究团队和设施，他们可以更快、更有效地推进研究。＊＊＊

9724819 Clements This U.S.-Brazil award provides support for Dr. Kevin A. Clements of Worcester Polytechnic Institute to work with Professor Antonio Simoes Costa at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil on the study of optimal power flow methods in competitive electricity markets. Optimal power flow is a tool which can be used to look at the problem of figuring the marginal costs of electricity. In computing these costs, several constraints must be taken into account such as physical lower and upper limits for individual generators, security-related transmission loading limits of transmission lines, and the required amount of reactive support. By developing this tool, they can model consumer demand elasticity as well as consumer energy use. They will develop models in parallel in Brazil and the United States. Both sides have been working on this problem and by joining research teams and facilities, they can advance their research more quickly and efficiently. ***