THE APPLICATION OF MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS TO SUBSTATION DESIGN

This paper presents an approach to substation design based on a multi- criteria analysis. it describes the four criteria and how they an appl ied, first of all to the selection of credible designs and then to the evaluation of these designs to arrive at the most promising result. T he substation structure is described in terms of its five composite gr oups and defined by the single-line diagram and the associated equipme nt The process of selecting suitable configuration (single-line diagra m) and associated electrical equipment is based on the multi-criteria approach. This approach is further refined to incorporate used prefere nces with respect to the chosen four criteria so as that the final des ign is representative of both the design specifications and the concer ns of the user.