Energy Consumption in India: Recent Trends and the Problem of Demand Forecasting

This paper describes a Network Planning Model for formulation for power generation and transmission system planning in detail, illustrated by an application for the Northern regional power network in India. The Network planning model simulates the operation of existing and proposed generating plants and transmission lines and the locational aspects of the generating plants and the topology of the transmission network is considered. The application of the Network planning model is expected to provide a capability for simultaneous optimization of the generation and transmission system expansion in a power system.