ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a procedural method for selecting and designing an acceptable optimum energy system configuration from a group of system alternatives to be established in a single area or multiarea mode. Electrical energy systems are generally represented in a conventional form in terms of data related to actual generating sources, loads, and impedances of the interconnecting network. Optimization of energy systems from an economic standpoint can proceed on the basis of arbitrary interconnecting networks in the power flow reference frame subject to certain constraints such as minimum losses, specified total generation, specified plant capacity, and total received load. Optimization of economic dispatch for a multiarea energy pool is the most sensitive problem facing the power utilities, which requires rigorous and fast evaluation leading to reliable, comprehensive, and universal solutions.
