Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.

Charles William Hansen

Yonghong Chen

Fengyu Wang

Kevin Andrew Vannoy

Jason Coy Howard

Kimberly Lynn Sperry

Congcong Wang

Chunheng Wang

A method for operating a combined-cycle electrical power grid by: accepting, from combined cycle power generation participants, combined cycle offers for valid combined cycle configurations, each including identification of power generator type(s) for the configuration and the offers including at least three levels of parameter information pertaining for the valid combined cycle configurations, the three levels including, (a) resource level parameters that describe transition information between the valid combined cycle configurations, (b) configuration level parameters that describe operating parameters for each valid configuration; and (c) component level parameters that describe operating parameters for specific power generator components included in a valid configuration; selecting commitments from the combined cycle offers based upon the resource level parameters, the configuration level parameters and the component level parameters; and controlling dispatch of electricity based upon the commitments.

Enhanced combined cycle

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Charles William Hansen