Whole Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Transmission Lines Using the Economic Life Interval Method

Wenhui Zeng, Jiayuan Fan, Wentao Zhang, Yu Li, Bin Zou, Ruirui Huang (), Xiao Xu and Junyong Liu
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Wenhui Zeng: State Grid Sichuan Economic Research Institute, Chengdu 610095, China
Jiayuan Fan: State Grid Sichuan Information & Communication Company, Chengdu 610041, China
Wentao Zhang: State Grid Sichuan Economic Research Institute, Chengdu 610095, China
Yu Li: State Grid Sichuan Economic Research Institute, Chengdu 610095, China
Bin Zou: State Grid Sichuan Economic Research Institute, Chengdu 610095, China
Ruirui Huang: College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Xiao Xu: College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Junyong Liu: College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 23, 1-13

Abstract: With the large-scale construction and commissioning of transmission lines over the past two decades, the grid is facing a large-scale centralized decommissioning of transmission lines. The transmission line’s economic life is crucial to rationalizing its construction and reducing the grid’s development costs. Based on the minimum economic life calculation principle, the static and dynamic transmission line economic life calculation model is established, considering the whole life cycle for transmission line cost. The improved gray GM (1,1) model is applied to forecast cost data during the economic life assessment of transmission lines with fewer samples. Considering the cost uncertainty in life-cycle costing, the interval cost model based on the coefficient of variation wave amplitude is proposed to determine the economic life intervals under different guarantees by using the normal distribution probability density function, which reduces the influence of cost fluctuations on the economic life calculation error. The economic life analysis of a 500 kV transmission line is used as a case study to verify the model’s accuracy and effectiveness. The method shows the economic life intervals under different guarantee degrees based on the most probable economic life determination, which provides theoretical support for calculating the economic life elasticity of transmission lines.

Keywords: transmission line; economic life; interval cost; gray forecasting model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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