THE EMPIRICAL INVESTMENT literature is full of disappointments. From time to time waves of new ideas challenge the aggregate investment equation, but these challenges are rarely successful, and progress is, at best, ...

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 ...

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 work proposes a linear disjunctive multiperiod optimization model for planning investments in energy sources considering two objectives, one economical (maximization of the net present value), and the other environmental ...

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 ...

A dynamic transmission planning methodology using a genetic algorithm is formulated for the purpose of determining an economically adapted electric transmission system in a deregulated open access environment. Transmission ...

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 ...