MILP and PSO approaches for solving a hydropower reservoirs intraday economic optimization problem

Abstract Short-term hydropower generation with several water reservoirs requires deciding, for each moment in time, the volume of water (outflow) that is released from every reservoir to be turbined and generate energy. Knowing the price of energy at every time period, the objective is to maximize t...

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Published inCentral European journal of operations research
Main Authors Castro-Freibott, Rodrigo, García-Castellano Gerbolés, Carlos, García-Sánchez, Alvaro, Ortega-Mier, Miguel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.09.2024
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Summary:Abstract Short-term hydropower generation with several water reservoirs requires deciding, for each moment in time, the volume of water (outflow) that is released from every reservoir to be turbined and generate energy. Knowing the price of energy at every time period, the objective is to maximize the income earned from the generated energy. In this paper, we present (1) a Hydropower Reservoirs Operation Optimization problem with a higher level of detail than those found in the literature, encompassing temporal delays, water hammer effects, and increased temporal discretization, among others features, and (2) two distinct approaches for addressing this problem: MILP and PSO. These methods are compared across instances of varying nature to evaluate their performance. We make our code available on GitHub: https://github.com/baobabsoluciones/flowing-basin .
ISSN:1435-246X
1613-9178
DOI:10.1007/s10100-024-00934-z