Problems in assessing reliability and efficiency of operational dispatch control in the electric power industry of Russia

Currently the issues of reliability and efficiency assessment of the operation and dispatch control of the Unified Energy System of Russia remain unreported and require the attention of the scientific community, electric power industry stakeholders, as well as federal and regional regulatory bodies. The paper studies the structure, mechanisms of interaction between the operational dispatch control participants and the electric power industry, regulatory legal acts, as well as the practice of operational dispatch control of the Unified Energy System of Russia and the electric power industry of foreign states. The existing system for assessing the reliability and efficiency of the operation and dispatch control of the Unified Energy System of Russia is considered. The study employs such methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, abstraction, comparative and logical methods. The paper highlights the impossibility of unambiguous perception by all subjects of the electric power industry as a justification for technical solutions, argumentation of their own actions and in other business processes, justification of the position of ensuring reliability, due to the absence of a clearly developed regulatory framework in the field of reliability (generally accepted apparatus and terminological certainty). The paper substantiates the need for monitoring and assessing the reliability and efficiency of operational dispatch control in the electric power industry. The problems of monitoring and evaluating operational dispatch control in the electric power industry are considered. The practical result of the work is suggested drafted organizational structure for monitoring the reliability and efficiency of operational dispatch control in the power industry.