This data file was created and provided by Bruce Wollenberg ([email protected]). You may want to contact him directly about how the costs were computed. If there is agreement on corrections to the file, I'm happy to include the corrections in the next version of MATPOWER.
-- Ray Zimmerman Senior Research Associate 419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:30 AM, Michael Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > The cost data in the case could be wrong: > > (1) startup cost for all generators cannot be same (15000). For example, U12 > needs 38MBTU for hot start; Table 3 of > http://pscal.ece.gatech.edu/testsys/index.html > gives fuel cost $5.5/MBTU, hence the hot start cost is $209. > > (2) What's more annoying is that the cost coefficient seems wrong too: > the above webpage shows the least square formula to compute (a, b, c). > However, if you follow it for U12, you will get > (a,b,c) = (92.51, 47.74, 0.87), > which is different from the listed > (a,b,c) = ( 86.38, 56.56, 0.328) > > Maybe I missed something? Did anyone here also compute these cost > coefficients? > > -- > All the best, > Michael Chen > > >
