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This work considers a short-term, continuous time setting characterized by a coupled power supply system controlled exclusively by a single provider and comprising a cascade of hydropower systems (dams), fossil fuel power stations, and a…
Optimizing maintenance scheduling is a major issue to improve the performance of hydropower plants. We study a system of several physical components of the same family: either a set of turbines, a set of transformers or a set of generators.…
The instantaneous power generation from a hydroelectric turbine is proportional to the product of head difference and turbine flow. The equation relating power to hydraulic variables is therefore nonlinear. Hence, optimization problems…
This paper provides a theoretical and numerical investigation of a penalty decomposition scheme for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. In particular, we consider some situations where parts of the constraints…
Dual decomposition is a powerful technique for deriving decomposition schemes for convex optimization problems with separable structure. Although the Augmented Lagrangian is computationally more stable than the ordinary Lagrangian, the…
This paper presents a long-term dispatch framework for coupled hydropower and floating photovoltaic systems. We introduce a temporal decomposition algorithm based on partial Lagrangian relaxation to address long-term water contract…
The Hadamard decomposition is a powerful technique for data analysis and matrix compression, which decomposes a given matrix into the element-wise product of two or more low-rank matrices. In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm to…
Existing results on decomposition methods and algorithms for nonconvex problems are minimal. Parallel decomposition algorithms do not exist for nonconvex problems with coupling nonlinear equality constraints. Besides, decomposition…
Hydro-thermal coordination is the problem of determining the optimal economic dispatch of hydro and thermal power plants over time. The physics of hydroelectricity generation is commonly simplified in the literature to account for its…
A new algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems with a separable objective function is proposed. The basic idea is to combine three techniques: Lagrangian dual decomposition, excessive gap and smoothing. The main…
We present an approximate method for solving nonlinear control problems over long time horizons, in which the full nonlinear model is preserved over an initial part of the horizon, while the remainder of the horizon is modeled using a…
The development of hydrogen infrastructures requires to reduce their costs. In this paper, we develop a multistage stochastic optimization model for the management of a hydrogen infrastructure which consists of an electrolyser, a compressor…
This study develops a scalable co-optimization strategy for the joint bidding of cascaded hydropower, wind, and solar energy units, treated as a unified entity in the day-ahead market. Although hydropower flexibility can manage the…
This paper exploits the decomposition structure of the large-scale hydrothermal generation expansion planning problem with an integrated modified Benders Decomposition and Progressive Hedging approach. We consider detailed and realistic…
Decomposition methods have been proposed to approximate solutions to large sequential decision making problems. In contexts where an agent interacts with multiple entities, utility decomposition can be used to separate the global objective…
This paper presents a medium-term self-scheduling optimization of pumped hydro storage power plants with detailed consideration of short-term flexibility. A decomposition of the problem into inter- and intrastage subproblems, where the…
Lagrangian duality in mixed integer optimization is a useful framework for problems decomposition and for producing tight lower bounds to the optimal objective, but in contrast to the convex counterpart, it is generally unable to produce…
We consider the problem of managing a hydroelectric power plant system. The system consists of N hydropower dams, which all have some maximum production capacity. The inflow to the system is some stochastic process, representing the…
This paper presents a time decomposition strategy to reduce the computational complexity of power system multi-interval operation problems. We focus on the economic dispatch problem. The considered scheduling horizon is decomposed into…
There is a rise in the need for efficient battery charging methods due to the high penetration of electromobility solutions. Battery swapping, a technique in which fully or partially depleted batteries are exchanged and then transported to…