Integration of externality costs in generation expansion planning : the case of Pakistan | |
| Author | Badar, Aqeel |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ET-97-15 |
| Subject(s) | Electric utilities--Pakistan--Costs Energy development--Pakistan |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | In our society, economic activity and daily life heavily depends upon electricity. The increase in dependence brings awareness of the need for a good power expansion plan. The goal of power planning is precisely to carry out studies which leads to decisions about expansion of the system in order to meet the growing load with high reliability and minimum costs. However, social costs of such plans are not often considered. This study has been carried out to integrate these social costs in the generation expansion planning to obtain a least cost plan. For the study, Five alternative scenarios have been considered. These are; base case scenario, independent power producers scenario, fixed hydro system scenario, efficient technology scenario and embedded environmental costs scenario. WASP III+ is used in the study that is a commonly used software for least cost generation expansion planning. Damage costs to society for each alternative has been calculated and added to the costs of the expansion plan. That gives the actual costs of the expansion plan because they including the damaged costs to society also. For determining the damage costs two externality costs cases have been considered and termed as high and low externality costs case. The results shows that damaged costs in the case of efficient technology scenario is found to be the least. It is about 17 percent and 13 percent less than the base case scenario. While the independent power producer scenario has the highest damaged costs. The total costs of the efficient technology scenario plan is minimum than the other scenarios, when high externality costs are used. therefore this is the least cost expansion plan for high externality costs case. While the embedded environmental costs scenario. is least cost plan when low externality costs are used. |
| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Energy Technology (ET) |
| Chairperson(s) | Malik, Arif Saeed; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Surapong Chirarattananon ;Srivastava, Suresh Chandra; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Japan; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1997 |