TY - GEN
T1 - Potential Factors for Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Capacity Uprate in Relation to New Transmission Line Projects
AU - Mbuli, Nhlanhla
AU - Pretorius, Jan Harm C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The most common approach to evaluating new transmission line projects considers techno-economic aspects. However, capacity uprate of lines differs in some fundamental ways from new additions, and has some advantages and disadvantages that the techno-economic approach may not be able to fully consider. Thus, the authors believe that a multi-criteria decision approach (MCDA) from the field of Operations Research (OR) could be useful in this scenario. To this end, the author has investigated other possible factors that could form criteria in a MCDA approach to assessing capacity uprate in relation to new lines. Several factors that could form criteria for evaluation were identified and are discussed in this paper. In addition to techno-economic aspects, these factors include financial position of company, effort in planning of lines, the duration of line project implementation, methods of construction and commissioning of projects, and environmental implications.
AB - The most common approach to evaluating new transmission line projects considers techno-economic aspects. However, capacity uprate of lines differs in some fundamental ways from new additions, and has some advantages and disadvantages that the techno-economic approach may not be able to fully consider. Thus, the authors believe that a multi-criteria decision approach (MCDA) from the field of Operations Research (OR) could be useful in this scenario. To this end, the author has investigated other possible factors that could form criteria in a MCDA approach to assessing capacity uprate in relation to new lines. Several factors that could form criteria for evaluation were identified and are discussed in this paper. In addition to techno-economic aspects, these factors include financial position of company, effort in planning of lines, the duration of line project implementation, methods of construction and commissioning of projects, and environmental implications.
KW - Capacity uprate of lines
KW - multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
KW - transmission lines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141535121&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PowerAfrica53997.2022.9905294
DO - 10.1109/PowerAfrica53997.2022.9905294
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85141535121
T3 - 2022 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2022
BT - 2022 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2022
Y2 - 22 August 2022 through 26 August 2022
ER -