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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INTER-UTILITY TRANSACTIONS ON MANITOBA HYDRO’S GENERATION DEVELOPMENT

Pages 100-128 | Published online: 23 Jan 2013
 

Abstract

In an attempt to make more effective use of available resources and to minimize costs, interconnections between electric power systems are becoming increasingly important. Utilities have developed several methods for minimizing cost through opportunities presented, by various types of diversity between systems. Manitoba provides a useful example, as it has undergone an evolutionary process in which most of the available methods have been used at one point or another. Within the system planning process interconnections must play a more important role.

Dans leur effort pour utiliser plus efficacement les ressources disponibles et pour en réduire le coûts, les distributeurs d’électricité accordent de plus en plus d’importance aux interconnexions entre leur réseaux. Les distributeurs ont mis au point plusieurs méthodes pour minimiser les coûts à partir des occasions que constituent les diversités des caractéristiques de leurs réseaux. Le Manitoba en est un exemple instructif parce qu’il a connu une évolution au cours de laquelle la plupart des méthodes disponibles ont été exploitées en un point ou un autre. L’importance du role des interconnexions doit encore s’accroître dans le cadre du processus de planification des réseaux.

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