POWER PLANT MODEL WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS INCLUDED IN THE ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY MODEL

Abstract

This work presents the results of the theoretical-methodological elaboration of the model by virtue of which the generating units are included in the models for calculation of reliability and availability of the electric power system in the operative plans of its operation. The operation, that is, the operative features of these generating units, and therewith also their reliability and availability, are influenced by the state of the environment, mostly by adverse weather conditions. The generating units model with environmental conditions included also introduces into the calculation of indicators of the electric power system reliability and availability, along with the time dependence, the dependence on the environmental conditions which the unit is exposed to during duration of the period of such conditions.