This paper gives a bibliographical survey on the issues related to the field of restructuring of power industry based on large number of published articles. More than 100 published research papers and articles have been analyzed and referred in this bibliography.

Restructuring of power industry - a bibliographical survey

The inadequate, and oftentimes scarce, infrastructure in Africa is largely hinged on poor electricity generation and transmission in the continent. To combat this, several projects have commenced in different regions and countries to boost electricity supply. This affords the continent the opportunity to pool together their different electricity resources and generation capabilities in a bid to stimulate regional cooperation and a power market. Fortunately, the existing four power pools provide a good foundation upon which the opportunity for an interconnected ‘African grid’ can be realized. Recent discoveries of large reserves of less-pollutant gas along the shores of Tanzania, hydro capability in Congo and other regions provide more impetus to a continental corridor for bulk transmission of electricity. However, these potentials are dependent on effective policy-making and implementation that are based on sound judgement. This paper summarizes the existing grid interconnection within Africa, and the prospects that abound by utilizing the power systems simulator — PowerWorld — to visualize the grid. Current grid models that have been designed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are presented. It is hoped that policy-makers and other stakeholders can make more-informed decisions based on understanding power systems using intuitive visualization software.

Design and visualization of the central, eastern, and Southern African power grid with large-scale generation in Tanzania

Nearly all of the human effort in computing the parameters of overhead power transmission lines lies in the collection and entry of data. One must assemble data for conductors, tower designs and rights of way and then place the conductors on the towers and the towers in rights of way in a way that will result in the correct computation of self- and mutual-series impedances and shunt admittances. One can reasonably expect to find libraries of conductor data, or at least they are available in published references, but all the other data are specific to a given utility and must be developed and entered by the user. This article describes one solution that has been developed to address this problem of data expression with emphasis on some graphical aids that provide visual verification of the reasonableness of the data as entered.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/67/13028/00595294.pdf

M. Enns

Papers

Visual verification of line parameter data