Making unit commitment decisions when electricity is traded at spot market prices

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference

Volumn 3, Issue WINTER MEETING, 2001, Pages 1509-1512

  Valenzuela, J ^a   Mazumdar, M ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Monte carlo; Spot price; Stochastic models; Unit commitment

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEREGULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MARKETING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

EDGEWORTH APPROXIMATION METHOD; SPOT MARKET PRICE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNIT COMMITMENT DECISIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037631146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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