economic benefits of transmission expansions for wholesale market environments (Section 7.2). To illustrate its use, we summarize its application to a proposed transmissionupgrade (Palo Verde-Devers 2, PVD2)(Section 7.3). We describe particular modeling procedures we used for the risk and market power analyses, which are new in transmission planning practice. We also summarize some issues that arise in …
The need for new transmission planning processes that respond to the demands of a restructured power industry is widely acknowledged [1–10]: