interesting stuff

Read a few papers today and had some possible ideas about what to investigate: one paper Coalition formation in transmission expansion planning uses coalition formation to determine the optimal number of transmission lines to add to an existing network in order to supply forecasted load. This same technique could be applied to mircorgenerators to determine how many should be added to the network and in what locations in order to meet various flows. This could be based on certain factors like average power output or efficiency or something. I also talked to Harry in the labs today, he suggested Power Matcher (which I already new about) and also IDAPS which I had forgotten about, so will look at the various papers produced on these implementations in due course.