Planning India's long-term energy shipment infrastructures for electricity and coal

Brian H. Bowen, Devendra Canchi, Vishal Agarwal Lalit, Paul Preckel (), F.T. Sparrow and Marty W. Irwin

Energy Policy, 2010, vol. 38, issue 1, 432-444

Abstract: The Purdue Long-Term Electricity Trading and Capacity Expansion Planning Model simultaneously optimizes both transmission and generation capacity expansions. Most commercial electricity system planning software is limited to only transmission planning. An application of the model to India's national power grid, for 2008-2028, indicates substantial transmission expansion is the cost-effective means of meeting the needs of the nation's growing economy. An electricity demand growth rate of 4% over the 20-year planning horizon requires more than a 50% increase in the Government's forecasted transmission capacity expansion, and 8% demand growth requires more than a six-fold increase in the planned transmission capacity expansion. The model minimizes the long-term expansion costs (operational and capital) for the nation's five existing regional power grids and suggests the need for large increases in load-carrying capability between them. Changes in coal policy affect both the location of new thermal power plants and the optimal pattern inter-regional transmission expansions.

Keywords: India; power; grid; Electricity; system; planning; Coal; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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