Representing energy price variability in long- and medium-term hydropower optimization

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 606-613

  Olivares, Marcelo A ^a   Lund, Jay R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy price variability; Hydropower operations modeling; Minimum instream flows; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ENERGY PRICES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROPOWER RESERVOIRS; INSTREAM FLOW REQUIREMENTS; INSTREAM FLOWS; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; OPERATIONS MODELING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

CURVE FITTING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; OPTIMIZATION; STREAM FLOW;

COSTS;

ENERGY RESOURCE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INSTREAM FLOW; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876708060     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000214     Document Type: Article

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