Piecewise linear approximations for hydropower production function applied on the hydrothermal unit commitment problem

Published in International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2022

Recommended citation: Santos, K.V, and Finardi, E. C. Piecewise linear approximations for hydropower production function applied on the hydrothermal unit commitment problem. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 135, 2022, 107464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107464 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107464

In this paper we propose different piecewise-linear formulations and improvements on the convex hull formulations for the hydropower production function consisting in plant-based models.

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Recommended citation: Santos, K.V, and Finardi, E. C. Piecewise linear approximations for hydropower production function applied on the hydrothermal unit commitment problem. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 135, 2022, 107464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107464.