CONSTRAINT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR ACTIVE NETWORKS
Robert MacDonald, Colin Foote · 2013
The adoption of active network management can mean that generators are offered “non-firm” connections to constrained networks. Constraint analysis provides estimations of the frequency and magnitude of constraint conditions experienced by non-firm generators, and the resultant curtailment of export in response to the constraints. In this paper, the key stages of the constraint analysis process are introduced; at each stage a variety of techniques are available. These techniques are discussed and mapped to the typical problem characteristics to which they are best suited.