Academic Catalog

EEE579 ECONOMIC OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS

Course Code: 3560579
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. MURAT FAHRÝOÐLU
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course aims to prepare the graduate students in power engineering to transition smoothly into the practices in power system planning, operations and control that address the needs of the new electricity business.

Starting with the economic dispatch function, this course describes the scope of the operations scheduling problem, presents mathematical formulations to the problem, and surveys recent advances in optimization based solution methods. The course is also concerned with the technical and engineering strategies that are going to be required in the emerging competitive markets for electricity.