Abstract |
Upper Karnali Hydropower Project is a 900 MW run of river hydro project in Nepal, from where the generated power will be transmitted to Indian grid via a dedicated transmission line, and hence local consumers will not be fed through this plant. As per the concession agreement executed between the Government of Nepal and the developers, a 2 MW hydro plant shall be developed at the toe of the dam by using the environmental release discharge. A previous study conducted by the authors, identified the optimal electric network, taking into consideration different factors such as demography, topography, socio-economic and technical feasibility. In this study, however, the authors analyze the performance of the system by carrying out a techno-economic study using computational grid network design analysis. A framework for Load Flow Analysis is developed and used to analyze the developed network. For verification, the results obtained are compared with those from standard 33 bus radial distribution feeder system and Forward/Backward based Sweep algorithm creating paired sample T-test. No significant difference between the results for a 95% confidence of interval is observed. After observing the results, it is concluded that the developed framework, as well as the grid network, are technical, computationally and economically efficient. |