Area Investment Strategy Model (AIP)
The
Area Investment Planning Model is
a distribution capacity planning tool
designed to capture the uncertainty
of future load and costs in the design
of plans for infrastructure additions.
It provides the cost and risk information
utilities need to build business cases
for least-cost investment strategies.
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Benefits
- Develops
least-cost plans given the future
uncertainties
- Includes
analysis of future load and cost
uncertainties
- Allows joint
consideration of T&D upgrades,
load management programs, and distributed
resources.
- Rigorous
economic analysis of distributed
generation.
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Applications
- Area
infrastructure expansion planning.
- Distributed
resource investment planning.
- Integration
of targeted customer programs and
distribution investment strategies.
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