Energy and Power System Planning

Areas of Work

Research at the Energy and Power System Planning Department can be divided into four basic areas:

• general power engineering and forecasting the consumption of energy,
• electricity generation development planning,
• transmission networks development planning,
• distribution networks development planning,

and these areas comprehensively cover long-term planning of the electric power system: from complex predictions of electricity consumption, through covering the predicted consumption with power plants and transmission and distribution networks planning, enabling a reliable supply of electricity to consumers.

Our department is active in the following areas:

• distribution networks development planning and optimisation,
• transmission networks development planning and optimisation,
• the development of distribution networks planning criteria,
• the development of software for analysing distribution and transmission networks within the scope of the GREDOS software package,
• the analysis of international connections with commercial lines,
• the inclusion of new production sources to EPS and the optimisation of production companies development,
• the development of programme tools for analysing the hydrological situation and potential generation of hydro power plants,
• the costs of electric power production, transmission and distribution,
• issues related to reactive power and distributed sources,
• energy consumption development,
• deregulation in the electric power industry,
• opening the electric power market and resolving the problems that occur,
• determining the prices of electricity of production facilities,
• the impact of traffic electrification and heating on the electric power system development.