An MILP approach for short-term hydro scheduling and unit commitment with head-dependent reservoir

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1115-1124

  Borghetti, Alberto ^a   D'Ambrosio, Claudia ^a   Lodi, Andrea ^a   Martello, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydro power plants operation; Hydro reservoir management; Mixed integer linear programming; Unit commitment

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; POWER GENERATION; SCHEDULING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTING TIME; ELECTRICITY PRICING; GENERATION COMPANIES; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HYDRO POWER PLANTS OPERATION; HYDRO RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; HYDRO SCHEDULING; HYDROPOWER STATIONS; LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MILP MODELS; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NON-LINEAR STRUCTURES; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; POWER PRODUCTION; REAL-WORLD DATA; SHORT TERM; SOFTWARE TOOLS; SOLUTION ACCURACY; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; UNIT COMMITMENT; UNIT-COMMITMENT PROBLEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 49249094152     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2008.926704     Document Type: Article

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