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Unit commitment approximations in generation and transmission planning: efficiency & accuracy

B.F. Hobbs, S. Kasina, J. Ho, S. Wogrin

INFORMS Anual Meeting - INFORMS 2015, Philadelphia (United States of America). 01-04 noviembre 2015


Summary:
Alternative tight relaxations of unit commitment problems that enable large planning models to be solved with operating subproblems that capture ramp, start-up, and pmin limits and costs. We examine their performance in the context of generation and transmission expansion models, including a stochastic programming analysis of the western interconnection of North America.


Publication date: November 2015.



Citation:
Hobbs, B.F., Kasina, S., Ho, J., Wogrin, S., Unit commitment approximations in generation and transmission planning: efficiency & accuracy, INFORMS Anual Meeting - INFORMS 2015, Philadelphia (United States of America). 01-04 November 2015.