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Economic Analysis of Jeju Island Power System Outage Using Event Study (이벤트 스터디 기법을 이용한 제주 정전의 경제적 파급효과 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-A;Lee, Jae-Hee;Lee, Jong-Uk;Joo, Sung-Kwan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.46-50
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    • 2010
  • Power system outages can lead to huge economic losses for various industries. Jeju island power system outage in 2006 also caused significant social and economic impacts in Korea. There have been numerous attempts to evaluate the economic costs of power system outages. Power system outages can also have financial impacts on electric power industry. This paper attempts to analyze the economic impacts of the 2006 Jeju island power system outage on the values of the firms in the power industry using event study. Empirical analysis results are presented to show the economic impacts of the 2006 Jeju island outage on the values of the firms in the power industry.

Important Role of Power Exchange in Conducting Futures Market for Stabilizing Electric Power Industry in Transition

  • Yoon, Yong T.
    • KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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    • v.3A no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2003
  • At present the electric power industry in Korea is going through a major restructuring process. The restructuring is motivated by a desire to reduce electricity supply costs, to attract new in-vestment in modern generation, transmission and distribution facilities, and to stimulate innovation in the wholesale production and the retail supply of electricity. The experience to date shows that restructuring of electric power industry in the US, however, is marred with a number of problematic market performances including unreasonably high prices at wholesale. This paper investigates the important role of Power Exchange for stabilizing electric power industry in transition by offering various financial products. These financial products are used for risk hedging by the market participants. The paper focuses on the risk hedging by an individual supplier and derives an explicit decision rule that incorporates the attitude towards the risks. In addition to providing the financial products for risk hedging by market participants, the Power Exchange plays another very important role of financial safeguard system. Because of its unique characteristics, the Power Exchange is well suited for financial surveillance where it performs the early detection of unsound financial (and to a large extent operational) practices on the part of any system users and protect the system integrity and the market participants from the consequences of a default in the clearing structure.

The Design of Control Algorithm for Unified Power Quality Compensator (3상 직병렬보상형 전력품질 보상장치(UPQC)의 제어 알고리즘 설계)

  • Jeon Jin Hong;Kim Tae Jin;Ryoo Hong Je;Kim Hwang Su
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.351-353
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    • 2004
  • In recent years, customers and power supplies are interested in power quality. Demands of customers are change from standard quality of distribution power system to various high quality of distribution power system. so, it is necessary to apply power quality compensator. in our project, we develop the UPQC(Unfied Power Quality Compensator of 45kVA which compensates power factor and voltage sag, interruption. it is very frequently occurred power quality $problems^{[1-3]}$ As a series and shunt compensator, UPQC consists of two inverters with common do link capacitor bank. It compensates the current quality in the shunt part and the voltage quality in the series part. In this paper, we present the design and control algorithm for 4SkVA UPQC system. As a control algorithm is implemented by digital controller, we consider sample-and-hold of signals. In this simulation, we use EMTDC/PSCAD V3.0 software which can simulate instantaneous voltage and current.

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A Domestic Power Companies' Strategy to Enter Asian Thermal Power Plant Market (국내 발전기업의 아시아 화력발전플랜트 시장 진출전략)

  • Park, Chang-Hyun;Moon, Seung-Jae
    • Plant Journal
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.58-66
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    • 2011
  • The power plant companies reached the culmination for growth in the domestic market. Besides, we have faced many challenges such as an electricity opening market trend for overseas, banning the use of coal due to the United nations framework convention on climate change, and the meticulous attention regarding the government's electricity charge plan. On the other hand, the overseas business has been a critical issue since China and many other developing countries expanded their projects abroad. Another factor is that power plant industry is being privatized, and it made the market regulation a bit loose. Thus, the market environment became favorable toward those companies which planned many overseas businesses. In this research, the power plant company's current condition for construction and operation as well as its technical competitiveness were analyzed, and an alternative plan using SWOT analysis for entering an oversea market was made. It dealt with both internal and external factors. Also, examined was the current situation under the power plant industry dealing with restructure for electric industry, lack of fossil fuel, and the United nations framework convention on climate change. From the research, it was suggested that many successful strategies to enter the overseas business by using the market trend I researched.

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Solar power and desalination plant for copper industry: improvised techniques

  • Sankar, D.;Deepa, N.;Rajagopal, S.;Karthik, K.M.
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2015
  • In India, continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water from Solar power and desalination plant plays a major role in the industries. Particularly in Copper industry, Solar power adopts Solar field collector combined with thermal storage system and steam Boiler, Turbine & Generator (BTG) for electricity production and desalination plant adopts Reverse osmosis (RO) for sweet/potable water production which cannot be used for long hours of power generation and consistency of energy supply for industrial processes and power generation cannot be ensured. This paper presents an overview of enhanced technology for Solar power and Desalination plant for Copper industry making it continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water. The conventional technology can be replaced with this proposed technique in the existing and upcoming industries.

Suggestions for More Reliable Measurement of Korean Nuclear Power Industry Safety Culture

  • Lee, Dhong Ha
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2016
  • Objective: The aim of this study is to suggest some improvement ideas based on the validity and the reliability analyses of the current safety culture measurement method applied to the Korean nuclear power industry. Background: Wrong safety culture is known as one of the major causes of the disasters such as the space shuttle Columbia disaster or the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident. Assessment of safety culture of an organization is important to build a safer organizational environment as well as to identify the risks hidden in the organization. Method: A face validity of the current safety culture measurement method was analyzed by comparison of the key factors of safety culture in the Korean nuclear power industry with those factors reviewed in the previous studies. The current interview method was analyzed to identify the problems which degrade the consistency of evaluation. Results: Most safety culture factors reviewed in the literatures are covered in the list of the Korean nuclear power industry safety culture factors. However the unstructured questions used in the interview may result in inconsistency of safety culture evaluation among interviewers. Conclusion: This study suggests some examples which might improve the consistency of interviewers' evaluation on safety culture such as a post interview evaluation form. Application: An extended post interview evaluation form might help to increase the accuracy of the interviewing method for Korean nuclear industry safety culture evaluation.

Analysis of Effect of Designated New Technology of Electric Power on the Electrical Construction Industries (전력신기술 제도가 전기공사업계에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Hwang, Min-Soo;Jeon, Tae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2012
  • Recently laws have been enacted to build and promote the use of smart grid. There are also increasing demands for the compliance with international trade agreements and the related international standards. Due to these rapid changes in electric power industry and the market expansion, importances of new technologies and processes have been being increased. To reflect these international trends, the government have carried out the designation of new technology for electric power industry to promote domestic industries and national competitiveness by inspiring technology developments in individual or private industry sectors. In this paper analysis of the current status of the designation of the new technology of electric power has been presented including its problem and effect on the related industries. The analysis is expected to be utilized to enhance sound development and to vitalize the electrical new technology regulation.

The Study on the Present State of Power Industry Technology and Future Development Direction (우리나라 전력산업 기술현황과 발전방향 모색)

  • Lee, Geun-Joon;Park, Hi-Chul;Hur, Kan-Do
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.378-384
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the prospects of today's situation of Korea Electric Power Industry and future's development direction at the sudden chin international environment Several paradigm,-Deregulated electric market Energy shortage, Green house effect due to $CO_2$, TBT(Technical Barrier to Trade), Digital society-will facilitate the glove to develope new technology based Power Industry. With respect to this change, Korea Power Industry needs to find new technology solutions for the smarter operation, higher efficiency and lower carbon consuming power system based on mid-long term plan.

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Policy Vision on the Cultural Contents Industry as a New Growth Power in the 21 Century (21세기 신성장 동력, 문화콘텐츠 정책의 방향)

  • Kim, Jeong-Hun
    • 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.171-180
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to find an policy vision and action plans for the growth of the Korean cultural contents industry as a new growth power in the 21th century. For this purpose, I referred to sundry records to analyze the characteristics, industrial situation and the prospects of the cultural contents industry. I also made an analysis on the outcome of the cultural contents policy with the help of the official concerned in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which made it possible for me to draw a few urgent problems of Korean cultural contents industry. With these preceding analyses, I proposed the strategy and action plans of the government policy for the Korean cultural contents industry as follows : strengthening the creative power of the cultural contents industry, systemizing the healthy circulation of the cultural contents, and improvement of the cultural welfare on the basis of contents.

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Analyzing Offshore Wind Power Patent Portfolios by Using Data Clustering

  • Chang, Shu-Hao;Fan, Chin-Yuan
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2014
  • Offshore wind power has been extremely popular in recent years, and in the energy technology field, relevant research has been increasingly conducted. However, research regarding patent portfolios is still insufficient. The purpose of this research is to study the status of mainstream offshore wind power technology and patent portfolios and to investigate major assignees and countries to obtain a thorough understanding of the developmental trends of offshore wind power technology. The findings may be used by the government and industry for designing additional strategic development proposals. Data mining methods, such as multiple correspondence analyses and k-means clustering, were implemented to explore the competing technological and strategic-group relationships within the offshore wind power industry. The results indicate that the technological positions and patent portfolios of the countries and manufacturers are different. Additional technological development strategy recommendations were proposed for the offshore wind power industry.