The Evolution of Electric Power Transmission Under Deregulation: Selected Readings

by Loehr, George C.; Casazza, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780780348073
• ISBN10: 0780348079
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: IEEE

Summary

Will the bulk electric power system be as reliable in the future as it has been in the past? Those who have addressed this question have generally only dealt with generating capacity. But there is another side to this equation -- the transmission system -- and to ignore it is to focus on only half the problem.

In this compendium, you will find some of the most current, and most classic articles and papers on the evolution and development of electric power transmission systems. This collection presents, in a comprehensible manner, timely and important information about our transmission systems from a wide variety of publications.

Table of Contents

IEEE Code of Ethics	i
Introduction	iii
Overview
Electric Power Systems: Past, Present, and Future	3	(2)
C. Concordia
Blackouts: Is the Risk Increasing?	5	(4)
J. Casazza
Shallow Turf: Everyone Seeks Firm Footing as NERC Drafts its Own Reform Legislation	9	(2)
B. W. Radford
Electric Restructuring: Handicapping the 106th Congress	11	(6)
J. F. Schuler, Jr.
Ten Myths About Electric Power Deregulation	17	(4)
G. C. Loehr
Take Unicom Tonight and Sleep, Sleep, Sleep	21	(4)
K. Maize
Transmission System Planning & Design
How to Reconcile the Opening of Competition and the Safety of the Power System: Historical Background and Lessons for the Future	25	(30)
F. Meslier
Power Pools & ISOs: Monitoring Market Power in a Restructured Industry	55	(6)
R. Lock
Wheeling & Dealing	61	(4)
P. Lewis
Risks, Games, and Gambles	65	(2)
T. Seppa
Microturbines---An Economic and Reliability Evaluation for Commercial, Residential, and Remote Load Applications	67	(8)
M. W. Davis
A. H. Gifford
T. J. Krupa
The Microturbine: A Generator to Ease T & D Woes	75	(4)
B. Koch
The Deregulation of the Electricity Industry	79	(4)
P. M. VanDoren
Transmission System Operation
Reliability in Power Delivery: Where Technology and Politics Meet	83	(4)
K. Stahlkopf
P. R. Sharp
Editor's Note: Aukland, New Zealand Blackouts	87	(2)
The Report of Ministerial Inquiry into the Auckland Power Supply Failure	89	(6)
Measuring Use of Transmission	95	(6)
J. A. Casazza
NERC's Plan is a Grid Wreck in Progress	101	(2)
D. E. Wojick
The First Ten Years of Real-Time Ratings on Underground Transmission Circuits, Overhead Lines, Switchgear and Power Transformers	103	(4)
S. P. Walldorf
J. S. Engelhardt
Increasing Transmission Capabilities by Dynamic Line Rating	107	(12)
T. O. Seppa
Group Aims to Protect Grid Reliability	119	(2)
Intelligent Management of the Electric Power Grid through an Innovative Anticipatory, Multi-Agent, High Performance Computing Approach	121	(8)
Editor's Note: Ageing of Transmission Facilities	129	(2)
Transmission System Aging	131	(10)
Laying the Superconductivity Foundation for Future Power	141	(8)
J. B. Howe
Transmission Transfer Capability
Editor's Note: Transmission Transfer Capabilities	149	(2)
Available Transfer Capability, Definitions and Determination	151	(4)
Comments on Capacity Benefit Margin	155	(10)
J. A. Casazza
G. C. Loehr
Understanding FERC's OASIS: Like Following a Mirage	165	(6)
M. Desai
K. J. Vormwald
Restructuring, Reliability & Transmission
Staff Report to the Federal Electric Regulatory Commission on the Causes of Wholesale Electric Pricing Abnormalities in the Midwest During June 1998	171	(6)
Missed Opportunity: What's Right and Wrong in the FERC Staff Report on the Midwest Price Spikes	177	(8)
J. L. Rose
Price Spikes Raise Market Manipulation Questions	185	(2)
T. Cissna
Reliability and Quality: You Get What You Expect	187	(8)
R. M. Chapman
Reliability Assessment 1998-2007: the Reliability of the Bulk Electric Systems in North America	195	(6)
Available Transfer Capability and First Order Sensitivity	201	(8)
M. H. Gravener
C. Nwankpa
Deregulation, Privatization, and Competition: Transmission Planning Under Uncertainty	209	(6)
T. De la Torre
J. W. Feltes
T. G. San Roman
H. M. Merrill
Electricity Derivatives Regulation: Mired in Uncertainty	215	(4)
N. Swan
ISO Economics: How California Flubbed It on Transmission Pricing	219	(6)
L. D. Kirsch
Auctionable Capacity Rights and Market-Based Pricing	225	(16)
R. D. Tabors
R. Wilson
A Market Solution to Reliability?	241	(4)
G. C. Loehr
Electricity Prices: Don't Re-regulate Before We've Even Finished Deregulating	245	(2)
J. Crystal
Meet the Emerging Transmission Market Segments	247	(8)
F. A. Rahmi
A. Vojdani
Effects of Deregulation on Power Engineering Education	255	(6)
G. G. Karaday
Downsizing Forces Utilities to Make Significant Changes in Engineering	261	(2)
Free Market Incentives to Expand Transmission Capacity Need Complex Regulations	263	(6)
A. Madian
Transmission System Components & Research
Explaining Real Dollar Cost of Imaginary Power to Nonengineers	269	(2)
W. E. Kazibwe
Synchronous Condenser: An Idea Whose Time Has Come	271	(4)
D. Gerstenkorn
Line Route Survey Uses Space-Age Technique	275	(4)
P. Moir
J. Vaughn
N. Banks
D. Muftic
F. Ritke
M. Korber
Light a Fuse Under Energy Technology	279	(2)
M. O'Neill
HVDC Intertie Leaps from Mercury-Arc Rectifiers to Light-Triggered Thyristors	281	(2)
New York State Acts to Relieve Growing Network Congestion	283	(6)
J. Reason
Editor's Note: Sleet Melting Procedures	289	(2)
Ice Melting of Sub-Transmission Lines	291	(8)
W. D. Adolphe
Communications, Information Security, And The Environment
Silicon Crisis? How Info Tech Poses Risk for Electric Restructuring	299	(8)
S. A. Klein
What it Takes to be an Inernet Service Provider	307	(2)
C. A. Heiberger
Meter Markets, A New Value Proposition---An Interview with Ralph Masiello and Sue Scott of ABB	309	(2)
B. W. Radford
How EPA Ozone Transport Rules May Change The Electric Power Industry	311
D. E. Wojick