scholarly journals An integrated electric power supply chain and fuel market network framework: Theoretical modeling with empirical analysis for New England

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 600-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zugang Liu ◽  
Anna Nagurney
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New England ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Theoretical Modeling ◽  
Electric Power Supply

scholarly journals Electric power supply chain networks design featuring differential pricing and preventive maintenance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chung Tsao ◽  
Thuy-Linh Vu ◽  
Jye-Chyi Lu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Network Design Problem ◽  
Supply Chain Network ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Differential Pricing

The electric power supply chain network plays an important role in the world economy. It powers our homes, offices, and industries and runs various forms of transportation. This paper considers an electric power supply chain network design problem featuring differential pricing and preventive maintenance. We demonstrate that this general model can be formulated as the centralized and decentralized supply chain models. A continuous approximation approach is used to model the problems. The objective of these models is to determine the optimal power plants’ service area, electricity price, and preventive maintenance budget while maximizing the total network profit or the own organization’s benefits. Our model is applied to the case of a power company in northern Vietnam. We show that the proposed approach can be used to address real-world cases effectively. The results demonstrate that the use of differential pricing policy and preventive maintenance could much enhance power company profit.

scholarly journals Modeling of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Fuel Suppliers via Variational Inequalities

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmytro Matsypura ◽  
Anna Nagurney ◽  
Zugang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Qualitative Properties ◽  
Existence Of A Solution ◽  
Electric Power Supply

The electric power industry in the United States and in other countries is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move once highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation approach to a competitive one. The emerging competitive markets and an increase in the number of market participants have, in turn, fundamentally changed not only electricity trading patterns but also the structure of the electric power supply chains. This new framework requires new mathematical and engineering models and associated algorithmic tools. Moreover, the availability of fuels for electric power generation is a topic of both economic importance and national security. This paper uses the model developed by Nagurney and Matsypura (2004, 2006) as the foundation for the introduction of explicit fuel suppliers, in the case of nonrenewable and/or renewable fuels, and their optimizing behavior, into a general electric power supply chain network model along with "direct-supply" generation. We derive the optimality conditions for the various decision-makers, including fuel suppliers, power generators, suppliers, as well as the transmission service providers and the consumers at the demand markets. We establish that the governing equilibrium conditions satisfy a finite-dimensional variational inequality problem. We provide qualitative properties of the equilibrium flow pattern; in particular, existence of a solution and uniqueness under suitable assumptions. Finally, we discuss how the equilibrium fuel supply and electric power flow pattern can be computed.

scholarly journals Coal-Electric Power Supply Chain Reduction and Operation Strategy under the Cap-and-Trade Model and Green Financial Background

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bowen Da ◽  
Chuanzhe Liu ◽  
Nana Liu ◽  
Yufei Xia ◽  
Fangming Xie
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Price Regulation ◽  
Bank Loan ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Electric Enterprises

For reliving the pressure of air pollution and corresponding the sustainability development policy in China, the companies are urging the creation of a highly productive low-carbon supply chain. This work uses price regulation, the cap-and-trade model, and a green financial policy background to establish a strategy for the coal–electric power supply chain with two-level carbon reduction and operation with financial constraints. A Stackelberg model was built to help investigate the rate of thermal order realization, the carbon reduction strategy in the coal enterprise, and the amount of thermal energy ordered in the electric enterprise. Results show that under a green financial background, a high bank loan discount rate for investing in carbon reduction technology equates to large carbon reduction in coal enterprises, large quantities of thermal energy ordered in electric enterprises, and high profit for coal and electric enterprises. However, the realization rate of thermal power ordered decreased when the price regulation become strict, thereby reducing the profit and carbon emission in electric enterprise. Therefore, the thermal price regulation level increased, the profit on both company and the production did not respond with sensitivity, and the government could encourage a low carbon model by controlling the bank loan rate.

scholarly journals Estimated billing system is the bane of grid electric power supply and development in Nigeria: An empirical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anthony Chibuike Ohajianya
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Billing System ◽  
Yearly Average ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Regulatory Commission

The estimated billing system for electricity was introduced in Nigeria by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in 2012 for billing customers without meters or with faulty or inaccessible meters. But instead of following the guidelines and formula provided by NERC for the estimation, the electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) resorted to billing these customers arbitrarily and frustrated efforts by NERC to ensure the proper metering of electricity consumers. This research evaluates the incentive, which makes the DisCos in Nigeria prefer the estimating billing system to a much more efficient smart prepaid metering system. To carry out the research, four Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) customers were selected. The estimated bills of these customers, which they received before they got smart prepaid meters, were compared with their prepaid meter bills for an equal period. EEDC was found to be over-billing these customers under the estimated billing system by a yearly average per customer of 64,901.67 Nigerian Naira (170.79 USD).

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