In a deregulated environment of power distribution industry, a comprehensive economic evaluation for the implementation of distribution automation systems is inevitable. It plays a key role in enabling distribution companies to achieve their business goals. In this thesis, a dynamic economic evaluation is presented to provide a comprehensive perception of automation intensity level and investment plan, for maximizing the utility profit and obtaining the desired payback period. Using the presented methodology in this thesis and system dynamics approach, it is efficiently possible to deal with variation of the economic parameters such as the interest rate, inflation rate, energy supply cost,...
In a deregulated environment of power distribution industry, a comprehensive economic evaluation for the implementation of distribution automation systems is inevitable. It plays a key role in enabling distribution companies to achieve their business goals. In this thesis, a dynamic economic evaluation is presented to provide a comprehensive perception of automation intensity level and investment plan, for maximizing the utility profit and obtaining the desired payback period. Using the presented methodology in this thesis and system dynamics approach, it is efficiently possible to deal with variation of the economic parameters such as the interest rate, inflation rate, energy supply cost,...