Complex for Determining the Energy Effect from the Construction of New Hydropower Plants

Abstract

This paper presents a description and appearance of a software package that implements the possibility of conducting researches of cascades with an arbitrary hydrological scheme. The complex allows to make water-energy calculations of HPP cascades, HPPs under construction and upgraded. Using the complex, can be determined the energy effect, i.e., increase in generation, of HPP cascade due to the construction of a new plant or the modernization of an existing one. The complex is developed in the Python programming language using the PyQt5 library, the calculations are optimized using the dynamic programming method. The calculation is made for the stage of pre-project assessment of the feasibility of building a hydroelectric power plant. The data for calculations were taken for the Kama hydroelectric power plant. The work touches upon the application of this complex in the process of teaching students and graduate students in higher educational institutions.