This paper presents an interior point method for the long-term generation scheduling of large-scale hydrothermal systems. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming one due to the nonlinear representation of hydropower production and thermal fuel cost functions. Sparsity exploitation techniques and an heuristic procedure for computing the interior point method search directions have b...

Thispaper presents a deterministic model, which takes into account the final water storage and the effects of water head, for optimal short term generation scheduling of a hydrothermal system. Considering its large scale mixed integer nonlinear structure, a hybrid algorithm based on Genetic Algorithm and tabu search is developed to solve it. The model is divided into thermal power dispatch and ...

Abstract: This study proposes a novel chaotic quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (CQPSO) algorithm for solving shortterm hydrothermal scheduling problem with a set of equality and inequality constraints. In the proposed method, chaotic local search technique is employed to enhance the local search capability and convergence rate of the algorithm. In addition, a novel constraint handlin...

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the largest investor-owned energy utility in the United States, obtains a significant fraction of its electric energy and capacity from hydrogeneration. Although hydro provides valuable flexibility, it is subject to usage limits and must be carefully scheduled. In addition, the amount of energy available from hydro varies widely from year to year, depending...

This paper presents an artificial bee colony algorithm for solving optimal short term hydrothermal scheduling problem. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, hydrothermal test system consists of three thermal units and four cascaded hydro power plants has been tested. The valve point loading effect is taken into consideration. In order to show the feasibility and robustness...

This paper proposes a new model for multi-area dynamic economic dispatch (MA-DED) problem, taking into account hydro-thermal generating units, wind power generation and power pool market, for supplying the overall demand of the system for a given horizon. The uncertainties in wind power generations, energy prices and demand of the system are also modeled to make the proposed approach more pract...

We study dynamic duopolistic competition between hydro and thermal generators under demand uncertainty. Producers compete in quantities and each is constrained: the thermal generator by capacity and the hydro generator by water availability. Two versions of the model are analysed: an infinite-horizon game emphasizing water withholding incentives of the hydro generator and the distribution of pr...