A framework to identify Pareto-efficient subdaily environmental flow constraints on hydropower reservoirs using a grid-wide power dispatch model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3664-3680

  Olivares, Marcelo A ^a   Haas, Jannik ^a   Palma Behnke, Rodrigo ^a   Benavides, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

environmental flow constraints; hydropeaking reservoir operation; Pareto efficient environmental constraints; subdaily hydrologic alteration; system wide hydrothermal coordination

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; HYDRO-THERMAL COORDINATIONS; HYDROLOGIC ALTERATIONS; RESERVOIR OPERATION;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING;

DESIGN; FLOW CONTROL; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANT; RESERVOIR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 85027949771     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016215     Document Type: Article

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