03569nam a2200397 4500 20260818143604.0 th eng .b11699693 AIT Thesis no.ET-97-15 Badar, Aqeel Integration of externality costs in generation expansion planning : the case of Pakistan Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1997 93 leaves + 1 online resource Thesis ; no. ET-97-15 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1997 In our society, economic activity and daily life heavily depends upon electricity. The increase in dependence brings awareness of the need for a good power expansion plan. The goal of power planning is precisely to carry out studies which leads to decisions about expansion of the system in order to meet the growing load with high reliability and minimum costs. However, social costs of such plans are not often considered. This study has been carried out to integrate these social costs in the generation expansion planning to obtain a least cost plan. For the study, Five alternative scenarios have been considered. These are; base case scenario, independent power producers scenario, fixed hydro system scenario, efficient technology scenario and embedded environmental costs scenario. WASP III+ is used in the study that is a commonly used software for least cost generation expansion planning. Damage costs to society for each alternative has been calculated and added to the costs of the expansion plan. That gives the actual costs of the expansion plan because they including the damaged costs to society also. For determining the damage costs two externality costs cases have been considered and termed as high and low externality costs case. The results shows that damaged costs in the case of efficient technology scenario is found to be the least. It is about 17 percent and 13 percent less than the base case scenario. While the independent power producer scenario has the highest damaged costs. The total costs of the efficient technology scenario plan is minimum than the other scenarios, when high externality costs are used. therefore this is the least cost expansion plan for high externality costs case. While the embedded environmental costs scenario. is least cost plan when low externality costs are used. Electric utilities Pakistan Costs Energy development Pakistan Malik, Arif Saeed, Chairperson Surapong Chiraratananon, Examination Committee Srivastava, Suresh Chandra, Examination committee Government of Japan, Scholarship donor Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ET-97-15 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B13691 .b11699693 mnait y 240403 0 980409 m a y 0 mnait mnarc 22 40 Barcode : 30050120713366 CREATED : 2014-03-02 RECORD # : i12755011 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050120366249 CREATED : 2016-06-14 RECORD # : i13035769 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 61716 61716 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-18 50.00 0 AIT Thesis no.ET-97-15 30050120713366 2026-08-18 14:36:04 3 2026-08-18 22 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-18 0 AIT Thesis no.ET-97-15 30050120366249 2026-08-18 14:36:04 2026-08-18 40