Sustainable Development of Regional Power Systems and the Consumption of Electric Energy

Evgeny Lisin, Daria Shuvalova, Irina Volkova and Wadim Strielkowski
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Evgeny Lisin: Department of Economics in Power Engineering and Industry, National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Krasnokazarmennaya st. 14, Moscow 111250, Russia
Daria Shuvalova: Department of Economics in Power Engineering and Industry, National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Krasnokazarmennaya st. 14, Moscow 111250, Russia
Wadim Strielkowski: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 303 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-10

Abstract: Nowadays, one of the most imminent problems facing power systems in post-industrial countries is the sustainable development of power systems under conditions of increasing power consumption irregularity due to the reduction of the industry’s share in consumers’ demand for electric power. In today’s Russia, this issue is becoming very acute due to the significant share of electric power and heat co-generation that is demonstrating low manoeuvrability and poor adaptation to operations in the daily variation of electric power demand. This paper considers the problem of improving the power system steady-state through the optimization of the production structure of thermal power plants. We propose a combinatorial algorithm that improves the planning of the structural and technological modernization of the power equipment configuration, with a glance at the forecast of the increasing irregularity of power consumption.

Keywords: power system; sustainable development; electric power and heat co-generation; irregularity of power consumption; optimization of production; structure of power plant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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