Electric Power Plants Planning and Operation

1. Course Title			Electric Power Plants Planning and Operation
2. Code			4ФЕИТ04З015
3. Study program			ЕЕПМ
4. Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department)			Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies
5. Degree (first, second, third cycle)			First cycle
6. Academic year/semester			IV/7	7. Number of ECTS credits			6
8. Lecturer			D-r Atanas Iliev
9. Course Prerequisites
10. Course Goals (acquired competencies): Acquisition of expert knowledge for tasks, process and criteria for planning the construction of power facilities depending on the time horizon and in funct ion of the development of the power system. Obtaining knowledge about methods for optimal operation of Hydro Power Plants, Thermal Power Plants and Renewable Energy Sources, as well as for models for optimal schedule of power plants in a complex power system.
11. Course Syllabus: Main tasks, objectives, features, requirements and challenges in Development of Power System in new market environment. Optimization methods in power engineering: nonlinear programming. Energy characteristics of TPP and HPP. Internal optimization of HPP operation. Optimal operation of transformer substations. Dynamic programming and its application for determining the expected production of electricity from hydroelectric power plants. Models for optimal operation of power plants in a complex power system – objective function, constraints, problem solving. Operation charts of turbo and hydro generators. Methods for long-term planning, uncertainty, assumptions, simulations. Methods for determining the expected production and costs of thermal power plants – method of combinations of the units, method of equivalent curves. Calculation of the reliability parameters (ENS and LOLP) for power system. Structure of costs, cost-benefit analysis and ways of financing the construction of power facilities. Sensitivity analysis. Application of the artificial intelligence in planning and operation
12. Learning methods: Lectures supported by presentations, interactive lectures, auditory exercises with solving practical examples, individual homeworks.
13. Total number of course hours			3 + 2 + 0 + 0
14. Distribution of course hours			180
15. Forms of teaching			15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching			45
			15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork			30
16. Other course activities			16.1. Projects, seminar papers			20
			16.2. Individual tasks			20
			16.3. Homework and self-learning			65
17. Grading			17.1. Exams			20
			17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral)			30
			17.3. Activity and participation			10
			17.4. Final exam			40
18. Grading criteria (points)			up to 50 points			5 (five) (F)
			from 51to 60 points			6 (six) (E)
			from 61to 70 points			7 (seven) (D)
			from 71to 80 points			8 (eight) (C)
			from 81to 90 points			9 (nine) (B)
			from 91to 100 points			10 (ten) (A)
19. Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam			Regular attendance on lectures and completion of the home works and project assignments
20. Forms of assessment			Through two partial written exams (duration of 2 hours each) or a final written exam on the whole teaching material (duration 2 hours). The student should prepare a seminar paper and submit it by the end of the semester. The points from the partial exams/final exam and the prepared seminar paper are included in the final grade. It is not allowed to use books, scripts, manuscripts or notes of any kind, mobile phone, tablet or any other electronic device during the exam.
21. Language			Macedonian and English
22. Method of monitoring of teaching quality			Internal evaluations and surveys
23. Literature
23.1. Required Literature
No.	Author	Title			Publisher			Year
1	М. Calovic, D. Saric	Power Systems Planning			BeoPress – Beograd			2005
2	Atanas Iliev	Збирка на решени задачи од планирање на погон и градба на електрични централи			FEEIT – Skopje			2002
3	Atanas Iliev	Lectures and Presentation for Planing and operation of Power Plants and Power system			FEIIT – Skopje			2019
23.2. Additional Literature
No.	Author	Title			Publisher			Year
1	Daniel Kirschen and Goran Strbac	Fundamentals od Power System Economics			John Willey & Sons			2004
2	Hossein Seifi, Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian	Electric Power System Planning			Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg			2011
3	Deqiang Gan, Donghan Feng, Jun Xie	Electricity Markets and Power System Economics			CRC PressTaylor & Francis Group			2014
4	Fawwaz Elkarmi, Nazih Abu-Shikhah	Power System Planning Technologies and Applications: Concepts, Solutions, and Management			IGI Global – USA			2012
5	Fawwaz Elkarmi, Nazih Abu-Shikhah	Power System Planning Technologies and Applications: Concepts, Solutions, and Management			IGI Global – USA			2012