Maintenance in transmission networks is an economical way to reduce upgrading network costs without decreasing its reliability. Hence, new studies regarding transmission expansion planning (TEP) must take into account the ...

From an economic perspective, a common criterion for assessing the merits of a transmission investment is its impacts on social welfare. The underlying assumption in using this criterion is that side payments may be used ...

We formulate a three-period model for studying how the exercise of local market power by generation firms affects the equilibrium investment between the generation and the transmission sectors. Using a 30-bus network ...

Electricity transmission planning does not have a common solution worldwide, with most countries trusting on alternatives adapted to the local energy markets' regulatory regime. The fast-growing conditions of the Chilean ...

This paper describes the Chilean experience in the planning and expansion of the grid transmission capacity under deregulated electricity market conditions, since 1982. Over all these years, the evolving conditions in the ...

Generation expansion planning plays a key role in the development of a power system. This paper contributes by developing a heuristic based on the results of a simulation model of the Central Interconnected System (SIC), ...

Defining and making decisions about network investments has become a hard task in a competitive environment. This work defines a methodology to look for expansion alternatives in a transmission system. We propose a ...

The transmission asset expansion in Colombia evidences constraints that affect the transmission planning and implementation of the optimal expansion plans. Therefore, it is required to analyse the transmission sector ...

This paper proposes a decimal codification genetic algorithm to solve the transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) problem considering the economic impact of line maintenance. The goal is to extend the lifespan of ...