OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR TRANSMISSION PLANNING IN OPEN ACCESS SCHEMES

The object oriented approach has gained wide spread importance and acc eptance in software development due to the advantages it offers concer ning flexibility, expandability, maintainability, and data integrity. For the purpose of determining it dynamic planning of a transmission s ystem in a deregulated open access environment, an object-oriented mar ket simulation model of power systems is proposed. Traditional power s ystem analysis applications are realised with object-oriented programm ing methods. The presented concept makes use of these object-oriented applications, and its applicability to a real system is shown with the Chilean business structure.