TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 – Unit Commitment

1.1 Introduction 01
1.2 Economic dispatch and unit commitment 01
1.3 Constraints on UC problem 01
1.4 Priority- list method 03
1.5 Formulation of Unit Commitment Problem 05
1.6 Dynamic Programming Method 05
CHAPTER 2 – Power System Security
2.1 Introduction 09
2.2 Contingency Analysis 12
2.3 Algorithm for Contingency Analysis Using Fast Decoupled Load Flow 15
2.4 Automatic Generation Control 17
2.4 Tie line bias control 21
CHAPTER 3 – Reliability
3.1 Introduction 25
3.2 Power Systems Reliability 25
3.3 Reliability Evaluation 26
3.4 Generation Reserves 26
3.5 Operating Reserve 26
3.6 Reliability Evaluation 26
3.7 State Space Representation 28
3.8 Generation Reliability Indices 29
3.9 Markov Modeling for Reliability 35
3.10 Series and parallel systems 35

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