
Define power system economics, master depreciation methods—straight-line, diminishing value, sinking fund—and tariff structures from uniform and flat-rate to two-part, three-part, block, and kWh tariffs.
Explore depreciation methods for power stations, including diminishing value, straight-line, sinking fund, and sum of years digits. Learn how annual deposits and compound interest build replacement funds and how benefits influence depreciation timing.
This lecture covers depreciation of power stations with straight-line, diminishing value, and sinking fund methods, using a 1 MW solar plant example and a 5% rate.
This video consist of introduction to power system tariff with objectives and desirable characteristic of tariff.
Learn to differentiate uniform rate, flat-rate, and block-rate tariffs, including per-unit energy charges, fairness, and suitability for residential and small consumers.
Calculate power system tariffs using uniform rate, flat rate, and block rate with a residential example, computing monthly energy consumption and bills for January 2021.
Explore how power system tariffs are calculated, distinguishing contract maximum demand from maximum demand tariffs, and compare two-part and three-part structures with fixed charges, energy charges, and demand charges.
Explore the apparent energy (kVAh) tariff and how charging reactive power alongside active energy impacts voltage at the point of common coupling and cost recovery.
Calculate kbH and savings from installing a capacitor bank under kVAh and TOD tariff in a practical industrial case, and verify results with an online calculator.
Consumers of electrical energy would be well advised to thoroughly understand the tariff structure of power system. The consumers may be residential commercial and industrial. Every power system utility aims to keep their cost of production of electricity as low as possible with reliability.
Power System Engineers can often play a significant role in power system economics and tariff structure. To reduce the cost of energy and choose suitable tariff structure is challenge in front of the power system engineer. To do so, an engineer must first understand power system economics and tariffs with detailed calculations.
This course includes calculation of cost of production of electrical energy and tariff using various methods such as two part, three part, TOD, ABT and kVAh tariff. This course have two main sections: one is related to power system economics and another is power system tariff.
This course can be opted by utility engineers, professionals and undergraduate final year and post graduate students of various universities
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this course, learner will be able to
Define power system economics and tariff
Apply different depreciation methods to power system economics.
Justify desirable properties of tariff.
Differentiate between different types of tariff structures.
Calculate tariff using different types of tariff methods.