Preventive Generation Maintenance Scheduling with Network Constraints, Spinning Reserve, and Forced Outage Rate.

The completely Electric Power System encompasses three parts: Generation, Transmission, and Distribution that all require maintenance to better system reliability and energy efficiency. Most generation maintenance scheduling (GMS) packages consider preventive maintenance scheduling for generating units over one or two year's time horizon to lessen the total operation costs while fulfilling system energy requirements. In advanced power systems, the inclusion of network limitations, reserve index, forced outage rates of the units, and demand for electricity have highly increased with related expansions in system size, which have led to the higher number of generators and lower reserve margins that making the generator maintenance scheduling problem more complex. This paper proposes a security constrained model for preventive generation maintenance scheduling problem. For more realistic study, system reliability indices such as transmission security, manpower constraint, and forced outage rate of the system as well as amount of system reserve are considered for the proposed maintenance scheduling problem. Impact of the load curve on GMS problem is investigated by a novel proposed penalty factor. General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is utilized for solving optimization problem. An IEEE 24-bus test system is employed for simulation and show the accuracy of results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]