EXAM 2 SUMMARY

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EXAM 2 SUMMARY

• Exam format
• Closed book, closed notes
• Calculators allowed, no communication devices.
• Some computation could be other kinds of
  questions (T/F, multiple choice, fill-in-blanks,
  short answer).
• Suggested study approach
• Make sure you know how to solve all HW. Please
  check the solutions!
• Review all in-class materials
• Review assigned book chapters

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EXAM SUMMARY

• Exam coverage
• AGC
• Primary control
• Secondary control
• CPS1, CPS2
• Cost curves
• Heat rates efficiency
• Marginal vs. Average
• NGCC Units convexity
• EDC
• EDC with losses/penalty fctrs
• LPOPF
• Formulation (offers/bids)
• LMPs
• Effects on congestion

Be able to obtain transfer functions from block
diagrams and get steady-state values from
transfer functions. Know what happens after a MW
imbalance.
Solution via closed form and Lambda search.
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EXAM SUMMARY

• Exam coverage
• Nonlinear OPF
• Solution by grad search
• Solution by Newton
• SCOPF
• Preventive
• Fully corrective
• Preventive-corrective
• SCUC
• Formulation
• Integer dynamic (inter-temporal constraints)
• Significance/meaning of constraints
• BB
• Basic concepts
• How to branch, how to bound

Formulation and physical understanding.
Use of GSFs and of Effective GSFs.