The Power Generation Portfolio Optimization Techniques (power generation through LPP forecasting)

Prateek Bhargava MBA P.M.

INTRODUCTION
Electricity generation is responsible to a large extent for the climate change all over the world. To reach the sustainable world. power supply the Renewable ratio should be raised and the CO2 emission technologies should be rolled back. The indirect cost of the climate changes appearing later, the harmful effects and the irreversible environment change are expressed by the externality cost. This paper shows a linear programming optimization technique how one can define the optimal portfolio having clear data and targets. Finally we discuss the difficulties of the decision making regarding the power plant constructions.

Basic power generation technologies

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GHG and the energy industry

The green house gases (GHG) create a special heat trap around the Earth globe and this phenomenon is considered one of the causes of the global climate change, the raise of the yearly average temperature. There are many GHGs, the two most important are the CO2 and methane. methane. The direct CO2 emission origins from the combustion technology of the fossil fuel the indirect CO2 production must be taking into account what is produced during the whole life cycle of the power plant construction and decommissioning and also during mining and processing the fuel.
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Optimization
Having known that there are some cloudy targets, that should be reached by constraints and we are going to find the best solution we choose the optimization techniques. Here we seek for Single Objective Optimum (SOO). (SOO). Our objective is to minimization of following three factors :

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We used the following fixed data in our calculations (see Table 2).  existing power generation capacities  enlarging possibilities  yearly energy demand (today 40 TWh and 50 TWh in 2020)  load factor  maximum energy production  minimal energy production  external cost/TWh  CO2 emission/TWh  investment cost  lifetime
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The different technologies have different investment needs (power plant construction), externality cost and CO2 emission. emission. The common platform is the cost of a power plant generating 1 TWh electricity. The objective function is a mathematical expression that shows the value of the feature to minimize. We have the followings: minimize.

Fig. Fig. Objective functions for minimization

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The second step is to set up the different constraints. The constraints are additional inequalities in the equation system that must be solved (see Fig.1). First we defined an objective function to minimize. This is the total external cost coming from the individual externality of each generation type. The linear programming tool found the solution that meets all the constraints and equation furthermore it produces the minimal externality cost (see Fig 2).

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Externality minimization- The LP Problem Constraints are: minimization1. Maximum quantities in yearly TWh: TWh:
# 1 ) 1 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 2,2 # 2 ) 0 (hydro) + 1 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 2,6 # 3 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 1 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 2,2 # 4 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 1 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 0,3 # 5 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 1 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 0,4 # 6 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 1 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 1,3 # 7 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 1 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 29,1 # 8 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 1 (nuc) (coal) + 0 (gas) <= 9,9 # 9 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) (coal) + 1 (gas) <= 31,5 Total energy is 40 TWh # 10 ) 1 (hydro) + 1 (wind) + 1 (biomass) + 1 (PV) + 1 (geo) + 1 (biogas) + 1 (nuc) + 1 (nuc) (coal) + 1 (gas) <= 40
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2. Minimum quantities in yearly TWh:

# 11 ) 1 (hydro) + 0 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 0,22 # 12 ) 0 (hydro) + 1 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 0,5 # 13 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 1,6 # 14 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 16 # 15 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 5 # 16 ) 0 (hydro) + 0 (wind) (coal) + 0 (gas) >= 10 + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) + 1 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 1 (nuc) + 0 (nuc) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 1 (nuc) + 0 (biomass) + 0 (PV) + 0 (geo) + 0 (biogas) + 0 (nuc) + 1 (nuc)

Fig 1. Constraints for the optimization (constraints table)

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On solving the above constraints we find the following externality minimization solution:

Fig. 2- The optimized externality result (SOO solution)

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The below shows the result portfolio of the externality minimization.

Table: Yearly production rate and cost in case of externality optimization

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Table 6: The power generation portfolio development alternatives by different objective functions:
EXT cost minimization EXT cost minimization INV cost minimization INV cost minimization 50 2,2 0,5 2,2 0 0,4 1,2 16 7 20,5 13 % 17,05 952,4 INV. cost minimization 40 0,22 0,5 1,6 0 0 0 16 5 16,68 5,8 % 13,23, 733,94 CO2 emission minimization CO2 emission minimization 50 2,2 2,6 0 0 0,4 1,3 29,1 0 14,4 13 % 7,77 401,5 165,94

Total energy hydro wind biomass PV geo biogas nuc coal gas REN CO2 External cost Yearly power plant building cost

50 2,2 2,6 2,2 0,3 0,4 1,3 29,1 0 11,9 18 % 7,44 417,35 182,52

50 2,2 2,6 0 0,3 0,4 1,3 29,1 0 14,1 13,6 % 7,65 395,35

50 2,2 2,6 0 0,3 0,4 1 29,1 0 14,4 13 % 7,8 401,35 173,17

50 0,22 0,5 1,6 0 0 0 16 7 24,68 4,64 % 18,83 1023,94

TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh TWh % Mt MEUR MEUR

174,56

95,62

112,96

125,70

Yearly power plant operation costs

1304

1403

1383

1401

1540

2128

1882

MEUR

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From the above table we can say:

    

Instead of the politicians the numerical solution provides a good sustainable solution. The future portfolio is not really sensitive to the amount of energy produced. It is forbidden to build up an energetic monoculture. In the current low cost solution the future operation costs are enormous. The power plant building and operation and externality costs are in the same range.

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Hence we can concludeconclude The total generated energy is 50 TWh. TWh.  The renewable ratio is 13%.  The total external cost is 401 MEUR.  Coal and biomass firing is stopped.  The CO2 emission is 7,8 Mt per year. It is almost the half of the present emission.  Setting up different objective functions we get different optimal power mixes.  All are optimal by a Single Objective (see Table 6.). The 6.). demonstration above shows This methodology is appropriate for the qualitative strategy definition.
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Fig. 17. Visualization of generation ratios in different optimization alternatives

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The optimisation provides the mathematically optimal solution regarding a preference. We always start form the existing situation and take into account the development possibility. Fig. 17. shows e.g. that  We should not run any coal fired unit if we want to really decrease the CO2. There is enough non CO2 emittive capacities (externality and CO2 minimization)  On the other side if we want to minimize the investment cost into the power plant (mix) than we must run this type of plants with high load factor, and we can build more gas and coal plant (minimal investment today maximal external cost in the future).  The nuclear, wind and hydro capacity plays important role in the externality minimum scenarios.

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Fig. 18. Yearly costs of the alternatives (MEUR)

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Fig. 18. shows that the yearly total cost of the fossil based scenario costs more than the renewable generation solution. It comes from the high fuel cost (gas) and externality costs. From the optimization we can present other results, too. Figure 19. shows the cost efficiency of the power plant development: If we had 1 MEUR it is enough to  Construct this amount of built in power capacity the cheapest is the gas and coal fired plant (green column). If we take into account only the investment only into the construction, we must build more and more gas based plant. But if we count the lifecycle operation (fuel) and externality costs, this is the worst solution!
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Fig. 19. How much energy can be generated from 1 MEUR?

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Construct and generate this amount of energy (operation cost ~ fuel cost) (red column) We can generate more energy from hydro, geothermal biogas and nuclear sources. The gas is the most expensive! In the long term planning hydro, geothermal biogas and nuclear (!) solutions are fitting to the relevant criteria.  If we pay the externality we get the previous result (blue column).


These calculations demonstrate that the rough SOO produces really distinct scenarios so it is not recommendable to use only the cheapest OR smallest emission version.
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As conclusion we can state that  The CO2 minimum and external cost minimization produces recommendable scenarios  The simple cost minimization implies huge CO2 emission  The gas (and oil) fired plants are cheap to build but expensive to run for the fuel cost and CO2 production  The wind generation is welcome  All portfolios contain hydro generation  The bulk central biomass firing is not the part of optimal mix  All the alternatives contain nuclear generation (do not forget that any other pumped storage plant raises 26 the external costs)

More detailed optimization with exact input data provides real results. We recommend this method for the national planning level too.

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Drivers and barriers

One should ask, if the CO2 emission has a significant role in the global warming, why we do not switch to low emission technologies? The power plant capacity development is demand driven, the present philosophy is: Generating as much energy as needed. The choice of the power plant type is influenced by not only the price, but the area usage, unit measure, the specific investment cost, the sensibility for the fuel price, the political stability of the fuel producing region, the water usage, the life time, etc. Among the dozens of aspects nowadays the emission is going to get more importance.

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The decision about a new power plant construction (yes/no or how large, etc.) is often made in the STEPLE frame:

Social (Employment; Right to energy access; Social mission; value of human positions - bureaucracy; etc.)  Technological (Security of supply; Quality of energy; Efficiency of production and usage; Integration)  Economic (Costs; End price of the energy; Growth rate of the economy; Profitability, ROI; Accumulation of the investment/development; Lifetime of the assets; etc.)  Political (Role of the state decision/subventions; Priority of energy supply; National interests; etc.)

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Legislation (Number of the rules; Controlled competition; Entry barriers; Corruption factor; Cooperative work between the players; etc.)  Environmental (Greenhouse effect EMISSION; Used/wasted materials; Area destruction; Ecological destruction; Energy resources; etc.)


The emission has weak positions nowadays.

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Conclusion


In the fight for the sustainable industrialized age the energy industry has no good position. It is responsible for one third of the CO2 emission and we cannot expect any change in the short future (growth of energy need, small unit measure of the renewable generation forms, relatively high direct costs). We have shown that the technologies and its emissions are well known so by a clear mathematical optimization we could plan the optimal power mix. Also there are many CO2 decreasing technologies, as the raising the energy usage and generation efficiency, trapping the exhausted CO2 or changing the generation portfolio to non fossil fuels.
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All the energy generation technologies have disadvantages but the decision space is wider than the simple short term profit maximization. The politicians should maximize the long term advantages (or at least to minimize the harmful effects) taking into account the long term external cost.

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