Economic Analysis on the Interconnected Electric Power System in Northeast Asia

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Interstate electric power system, as an alternative for energy cooperation under regional economic bloc, has been hotly debated before progressing the restructure in electric power industry and rapidly expanded in many regions after 1990s. Especially, since northeast asia has strong supplementation in resource, load shape, fuel mix etc., interconnection of electric power systems in this region may bring considerable economic benefits. For the economic analysis, we implement ORIRES model developed by ESI, Russia. ORIRES is a linear programming (LP) model for electric power system operation and planning. Since ORIRES requires data relatively less than other model, it is suitable for northeast asia that has considerable restriction against required data acquisition. In this paper, we perform an economic analysis on interconnection in northeast asia.