COMPUTER CODE FOR A GENERALIZED AND USER ORIENTED POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM ANALYSIS PROCEDURE.

One of the most fundamental and important questions that both power system planning and operating engineers must answer is: How much power can safely be transferred from a generation rich area to a generation poor area with a given transmission system and associated load and generation pattern? This paper describes the newly released Version 2 of the New York Power Pool Contingency Analysis Procedure - (CAP). CAP provides a highly user oriented and mathematically efficient approach to the determination of inter- and intra-area thermally constrained power transfer capabilities. CAP is freely available to all utilities and is presently being heavily utilized by operations and planning personnel at approximately 15 utilities and power pools in the northeastern United States.