EE 458

Course Schedule
Economic systems for electric power planning (Fall 2004)

M ,W, F 2-3, 1344 Howe

Instructors: Professors Jim McCalley, Ratnesh Kumar, and Oscar Volij

Dr. McCalley's Home Page

 

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HW,Quiz solutions

 

Date

Instructor

Topic

Book chapter and resource

Assignment

 

M, 8/23

Kumar

Intro to Linear Programming – problem formulation

Intro to LP, based on these notes (click here)

 

 

W, 8/25

Kumar

Intro to Linear Programming – problem formulation

Intro to LP, Download class notes (click here)

 

 

F, 8/27

Kumar

Intro to Linear Programming – Simplex method

Intro to LP, Download matlab EX1, EX2, EX3

Download HW1, due 9/3

 

M, 8/30

Kumar

Intro to Linear Programming – Simplex method

Intro to LP

 

 

W, 9/1

Kumar

Intro to Linear Programming - Duality

Intro to LP

 

 

F, 9/3

Volij

Fundamentals of economic theory

Ch 2, based on Notes1 (click here) and

Notes2  (click here) .

Download HW2, due 9/10, Download notes for HW2.

 

M, 9/6

LABOR DAY

W, 9/8

Volij

Consumer’s surplus

Ch 2

Download HW3, due 9/15

 

F, 9/10

Volij

Producer’s surplus

Ch 2

 

 

M, 9/13

Volij

Economic Efficiency

Ch 2

 

 

W, 9/15

Volij

Competitive Equilibrium

Ch 2

 

 

F, 9/17

EXAM 1

 

 

 

 

M, 9/20

McCalley

Overview of electricity systems, evolution of electricity markets, and other fun things on power and energy

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

Download slides (click here). Note that the slides are very large (44 MB), containing lots of pictures with a few movie clips, and it will take a while if you are on slow connection.

HW4 assigned in class

 

W, 9/22

McCalley

Types of transactions in electricity markets

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

 

 

F, 9/24

McCalley

Modeling of generator cost-rate curves

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

 

 

M, 9/27

McCalley

Market participation, EDC by Newton and by Lambda-iteration

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

 

 

W, 9/29

McCalley

Piecewise linear cost curves and EDC by LP

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

HW5 at end of 9/29 notes.

 

F, 10/1

McCalley

Development of AC and DC power flow equations

Ch 3-5, Download notes (click here).

 

 

M, 10/4

McCalley

Development of AC and DC power flow equations

Ch 3-5

 

 

W, 10/6

McCalley

Linear programming optimal power flow

Ch 3-5 Download notes (click here).

HW6 at end of 10/6 notes.

 

F, 10/8

McCalley

Linear programming optimal power flow

 

 

 

M, 10/11

McCalley

Network sensitivities

Download notes (click here).

 

 

W, 10/13

Volij

Nodal pricing - overview

Ch 6

 

 

F, 10/15

Volij

Nodal pricing – two bus system

Ch 6, Download slides (click here).

Download HW7, due10/22

 

M, 10/18

Volij

Nodal pricing - example

Ch 6, Download slides (click here).

 

 

W, 10/20

Volij

The envelope theorem

Ch 6, Download slides (click here).

 

 

F, 10/22

Volij

Nodal pricing and transmission congestion

Ch 6, Download slides (click here).

Download HW8, due 10/29

 

M, 10/25

Volij

Nodal pricing and transmission congestion

Ch 6

 

 

W, 10/27

Volij

Nodal pricing – three bus system

Ch 6, Download slides (click here).

 

 

F, 10/29

Volij

Nodal pricing – three bus system

Ch 6

 

 

M, 11/1

Volij

Nodal pricing – three bus system

Ch 6

 

 

W, 11/3

EXAM 2

 

 

Download HW9 due 11/10.

 

F, 11/5

McCalley

Introduction to transmission planning

Ch 7-8, Download notes, click here.

Download HW10 and corresponding resources from PG&E, PJM1, PJM2, and OH.  The information of interest in PJM1 is the portion called “Resource planning process.” Due 11/12.

 

M, 11/8

McCalley

Introduction to transmission planning

Ch 7-8

 

 

W, 11/10

McCalley

An optimization formulation to transmission planning

Ch 7-8, Download notes (click here).

Download HW12, due Wednesday Dec 1.

 

F, 11/12

Kumar

More on linear programming

Download notes (click here).

Download HW11, P1 due 11/19.

 

M, 11/15

Kumar

More on linear programming: Duality

Download notes (click here).

HW11, P2 at end of 11/15 notes, due 11/19.

 

W, 11/17

Kumar

More on linear programming: Duality

Download notes (click here)

 

 

F, 11/19

Kumar

Integer programming

Download notes (click here).

 

 

11/22-26

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

M, 11/29

Kumar

Integer programming

Download notes (click here).

Download HW13, due 12/6.

 

W, 12/1

Kumar

Integer programming

Download notes (click here).

Download Excel Example (click here).

 

 

F, 12/3

Kumar

Integer programming

Download notes (click here)

 

 

M, 12/6

Volij

More on planning

Ch 8.4, Download notes (click here).

 

 

W, 12/8

Volij

More on planning

Ch 8.4

 

 

F, 12/10

McCalley

Last comments

Download notes (click here)

 

 

12/13-17

FINAL EXAMS: Our exam is Thursday, Dec 16, 12-2 pm.