Patent ID: 9727828
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06Q,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor of a system, a transmission of a plurality of load forecasts associated with individual operating plans having scheduling intervals created by a plurality of scheduler engines that are security constrained unit commitments and economic dispatch sequences, wherein respective scheduler engines of the plurality of scheduler intervals have different look-ahead periods and different scheduling intervals, and wherein at least one of the individual operating plans comprises a constraint defining fuel consumption reserved for at least one scheduling interval of the scheduling intervals for generation of electrical power by a power generation system; capturing, by the processor, real-time power generation system conditions associated with execution of a comprehensive operating plan during the generation of the electrical power by the power generation system, the comprehensive operating plan generated from the load forecasts associated with the individual operating plans and the constraint defining the fuel consumption reserved for the at least one scheduling interval of the scheduling intervals for generation of the electrical power by the power generation system; performing, by the processor, an analysis on at least one of a performance metric, a root-cause impact, or a process re-engineering associated with the execution of the comprehensive operating plan against a use-case based upon the power generation system conditions, wherein the use-case comprises respective scenarios having perturbations of impact factors on the power generation system conditions, and the analysis comprises a two-round optimization on each scenario, wherein a first round of the two-round optimization comprises a security constrained unit dispatch optimization and a second round of the two-round optimization comprises a sequential security constrained economic dispatch optimization on a plurality of time intervals; displaying, by the processor on a display device, results of the analysis on the at least one of the performance metric, a root-cause impact, or a process re-engineering for each scenario; modifying, by the processor, the comprehensive operating plan based upon the results of the analysis on the at least one of the performance metric, the root-cause impact, or the process re-engineering for each scenario; and controlling, by the processor, the power generation system to dispatch power generation system resources according to the modified comprehensive operating plan to generate the electrical power.