National and regional planning, structure of power system, planning tools, electricity regulation, Load forecasting, forecasting techniques, modeling.
Integrated power generation, co-generation / captive power, power pooling and power trading, transmission & distribution planning, power system economics, power sector finance, financial planning, private participation, rural electrification investment, concept of rational tariffs.
Wheeling, environmental effects, green house effect, technological impacts, insulation co-ordination, reactive compensation.
reliability planning, system operation planning, load management,load prediction, reactive power balance, online power flow studies, test estimation, computerized management. Power system simulator.
Optimal Power system expansion planning, formulation of least cost optimization problem incorporating the capital, operating and maintenance cost of candidate plants of different types (thermal hydro nuclear non conventional etc), Optimization techniques for solution by programming.