Optimizing Scheme of Power Delivery for Small Thermal Power Generating Units Under Emergency

An optimization model was established based on the small thermal power generating units (STPGUs) as one of the effective emergency measures of power delivery in the natural disaster areas (such as the snow disaster on January 28, 2008, in China), which was subject to certain reliability and constraints including time and power capacity. The model was performed in a case study to minimum the total cost: the operating costs of small thermal power generating units (MC) and power customer interruption cost function (OC) using MATLAB, and the results showed that the optimization scheme of emergency power for STPGUs could meet the challenge of emergent power delivery caused by the natural disaster, although the STPGUs has been closing-down in China due to its "high-energy-consumption, high pollution".