Environmental and utility planning implications of electricity loss reduction in a developing country: a comparative study of technical options
✍ Scribed by Ram M. Shrestha; Muhammad Azhar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0363-907X
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✦ Synopsis
This paper discusses the environmental and utility planning implications of load (i.e. 'variable') and non-load (i.e. 'core') loss reduction options in the case of a mixed hydro-thermal power system from a long-term electricity generation expansion planning perspective. A key finding of the study is that a reduction of electricity losses in transmission and distribution need not always reduce emissions of air pollutants; and that neither loss reduction option is consistently superior over time from the environmental perspective. For a given level of loss reduction, long-run average cost of electricity generation with the variable loss reduction option was found to be less than that with the core loss reduction option.