Maintenance Scheduling in Restructured Power Systems

An introduction to algorithms for improving the economic posture of a utility company in a restructured power system by promoting cost-effective maintenance schedules, the text offers a logical alternative to traditional electric utility maintenance practices and a basis for making maintenance decisions. Maintenance scheduling problems are formulated as decomposed problems. This signifies the nature of restructured power systems with self-interested entities and optimizes potential revenues while meeting constraints such as fuel schedules, emission constraints, hourly load demands, and network limits. Co-ordination of short and long-term maintenance scheduling is also presented. The book shows by numerous derivations and examples that careful planning and good co-ordination among self-interested entities in restructured power systems are essential to achieving an optimal trade-off between the cost of maintenance and service reliability. "Maintenance Scheduling in Restructured Power Systems" includes a variety of models, solutions and ideas that should be of interest to engineers, consultants, manufacturers, students, and others working and studying in the utility field.