Dear Professor Zimmerman, 1. What does "objective function value (OFV)" represent when you do a runopf? Is it system operation cost(sum of generation cost + startup cost) or social welfare?
2. What about the objective function value when you do a runopf_w_res? Can it be concluded that the difference between the objective value of runopf and runopf_w_res is the cost of reserve? 3. I am trying to study the advantages that simultaneous scheduling of energy and reserve offers over successive scheduling in scenes of optimality. I am going to do this study by comparing OFVs of runopf and runopf_w_res. To this end I aim to compare the OFVs of a runpof_w_res with the summation of the OFV of runopf and OFV of runopf_w_res in which demand is set to zero and generation and transmission capacities are upgraded according to the scheduling of energy (successive manner). Please let me know how do you think about comparative study? Is there anything that I should consider? Is there a better way to do gain this goal by MATPOWER?... Kind Regards, Mostafa
