Electricity Generation Expansion Planning for Tamil Nadu Considering Greenhouse Gassesemission Bhuvanesh A.*, Christa S.T. Jaya**, Kannan S.*** *Research Scholar, Department of EEE, MepcoSchlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, India. bhuvanesh.ananthan@gmail.com **Associate Professor, Department of EEE, MepcoSchlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, India ***Professor & Head, Department of EEE, Ramco Institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, India Online published on 23 March, 2017. Abstract Global climate change is the biggest challenge to energy and environmental policy. New approaches in energy policy are required due to an increasing indication on global warming. The application of Long-Range Energy Alternative Planning (LEAP) and Energy PLAN software to forecast and plan a range of various technologies for expanding electricity generation with low GHG emission for Tamil Nadu is presented in this paper. The cost of generating electricity includes the capital, fuel, operation and maintenance costs are considered. Detailed analyses are performed with and without the inclusion of externality costs of local air pollution in order to examine the cheapest option of electricity generation. The impact of imposing GHG emission limit on the change in generating technologies was analyzed, considering least cost of electricity generation. Moreover, the corresponding overall cost of electricity generation was found for each case. The electricity generation is planned for future years until 2025, keeping 2016 as base year. This model can be further used for predictive electricity generation after 2025 also. The output from LEAP is fed into the energy modeling tool Energy PLAN, to plan the same in monthly and hourly basis. This paper results with a good plan for electricity generation expansion, which would be the right path towards a low carbon emission in future. Top Keywords Electricity Generation Expansion Planning, EnergyPLAN, GHG Emissions, Tamil Nadu and LEAP. Top |