Round-Trip

The Round-Trip is the linking of the Automatic (economic) Production Cost Model (PCM) and the manual (non-economic) Power Flow (PF) model. This makes it possible to do a stability study on an economically dispatched model to assess potential future reliability risks.

The Round-Trip process includes selecting an hour of the economic dispatch to be exported into a power flow, solving the model, then running studies to assess how changes in the generations dispatch and load profile impact the reliability of the system.