Integration of Distribution System Planning

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What is one of the factors that should be considered in building a relationship between investment requirements and financial plans?

Bulk purchase prices of water (correct)

Wind speed variations

Electricity consumption by sector

Employee turnover rates

In the context of power engineering, why is it important to match technical performance and total cost?

To increase system losses

To reduce load growth

To simplify maintenance schedules

To optimize efficiency (correct)

What is one of the tasks for which suitable tools must be developed in quantitative assessments of system design problems?

Estimating employee salary changes

Defining technically infeasible solutions (correct)

Ensuring different types of costs can't be compared

Estimating the cost of each employee training session

What is an example that could be provided for defining a technically feasible solution in power engineering?

Calculating voltage regulation decisions Signup and view all the answers

In combining engineering and economics, what is essential to ensure that different types of costs can be sensibly compared?

Having costs in a form suitable for comparison Signup and view all the answers

Why might deviation from standards such as slight voltage drop be possible in power engineering?

For achieving an optimum solution Signup and view all the answers

What should distribution system planning be integrated with and inform according to the text?

Transmission/wholesale market planning Signup and view all the answers

How can the growth of DER on a utility’s distribution system impact the need for new centralized generation and transmission?

Increase the need for new centralized generation Signup and view all the answers

What do rising DER deployments imply for the types of distribution system and other investments needed?

Increase in the need for certain investments Signup and view all the answers

Why should planning processes take various DER growth forecasts and options into account?

To drive towards optimal decisions for the system and customers Signup and view all the answers

How can integration with other planning activities help utilities in identifying opportunities?

By improving coordination between transmission and distribution planning processes Signup and view all the answers

What may be identified through planning coordination between transmission and distribution planning processes?

Operational inefficiencies in the grid Signup and view all the answers

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What is one of the factors that should be considered in building a relationship between investment requirements and financial plans?

In the context of power engineering, why is it important to match technical performance and total cost?

What is one of the tasks for which suitable tools must be developed in quantitative assessments of system design problems?

What is an example that could be provided for defining a technically feasible solution in power engineering?

In combining engineering and economics, what is essential to ensure that different types of costs can be sensibly compared?

Why might deviation from standards such as slight voltage drop be possible in power engineering?

What should distribution system planning be integrated with and inform according to the text?

How can the growth of DER on a utility’s distribution system impact the need for new centralized generation and transmission?

What do rising DER deployments imply for the types of distribution system and other investments needed?

Why should planning processes take various DER growth forecasts and options into account?

How can integration with other planning activities help utilities in identifying opportunities?

What may be identified through planning coordination between transmission and distribution planning processes?

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