Primal And Dual Methods For Unit Commitment In A Hydro-Thermal Power System

: For unit commitment in areal power generation system comprisingthermal and pumped-storage hydro unitsa large-scale mixed-integer optimizationmodel is developed and solved by primaland dual approaches. Solution methodsuse state-of-the-art algorithms and software.Results of test runs are reported.Keywords: Unit commitment, mixed-integerlinear programming, polyhedral combinatorics,Lagrangian relaxation, bundle methods1 INTRODUCTIONUnit commitment in power operation planningaims...