Evaluating New Business Opportunities for Interregional Transmission
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Okoye-donok365-mba-mgt-2024-thesis.pdf
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Author(s)
Okoye, Don
Advisor(s)
Ilic, Marija
Welsch, Roy
Date Issued
May 2024
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The merchant transmission investment model is conducive to addressing interregional and long-range transmission needs as it provides a pathway to circumvent localized regional and state transmission planning processes and focus directly on interregional development. Furthermore, merchant transmission investments in accordance with comprehensive (multi-value) benefits planning provide a favorable benefit-to-cost ratio for transmission customers and support positive returns for investors. However, evaluating the comprehensive benefits of proposed transmission projects is computationally expensive and unfeasible to execute for early-stage, exploratory analysis of multiple projects. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the development and use of a computationally-reduced transmission business evaluation tool that heuristically evaluates critical components of comprehensive benefits and assesses merchant-based cost recovery viability of five interregional and long-range transmission projects on a forward-looking basis.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sloan School of Management
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