Technical and economical aspects of wholesale electricity markets: An international comparison and main contributions for improvements in Brazil

L Ribeiro, A Street, D Valladão, AC Freire… - Electric Power Systems …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Brazilian power-market design features were based on the system's physical and
economic characteristics in the'90s. However, some of the approximations and assumptions …

Application of stochastic dual dynamic programming to the real-time dispatch of storage under renewable supply uncertainty

A Papavasiliou, Y Mou, L Cambier… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a multistage stochastic programming formulation of a transmission-
constrained economic dispatch subject to multiarea renewable production uncertainty, with …

Nonconvex medium-term hydropower scheduling by stochastic dual dynamic integer programming

MN Hjelmeland, J Zou, A Helseth… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hydropower producers rely on stochastic optimization when scheduling their resources over
long periods of time. Due to its computational complexity, the optimization problem is …

Modelling of environmental constraints for hydropower optimization problems–a review

LE Schäffer, A Adeva-Bustos… - … conference on the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hydropower plants and reservoirs can have negative impacts on their surrounding
ecosystems. To limit such impacts, environmental regulations may be imposed. This paper …

A soft robust methodology to devise hedging strategies in renewable energy trading based on electricity options

A Brigatto, B Fanzeres - Electric Power Systems Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Supply contracts play an important role in competitive electricity markets. They help ensure
supply adequacy and hedge against market power, among other benefits. However, when …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for efficient multi-timescale bidding of a hybrid power plant in day-ahead and real-time markets

T Ochoa, E Gil, A Angulo, C Valle - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective bidding on multiple electricity products under uncertainty would allow a more
profitable market participation for hybrid power plants with variable energy resources and …

A target-time-windows technique for project scheduling under uncertainty

P Lamas, M Goycoolea, B Pagnoncelli… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We address the problem of determining the start times of activities in order to maximize the
expected net present value of a project given precedence constraints. We assume that each …

Sequential pricing of electricity

J Mays - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the design and analysis of price formation in wholesale electricity
markets given variability, uncertainty, non-convexity, and intertemporal operating …

Convex relaxations of the short-term hydrothermal scheduling problem

A Helseth, S Jaehnert, AL Diniz - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper concerns the assessment of two methods for convex relaxation of the short-term
hydrothermal scheduling problem. The problem is originally formulated as a mixed integer …

Hydropower aggregation by spatial decomposition—an sddp approach

A Helseth, B Mo - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The balance between detailed technical description, representation of uncertainty and
computational complexity is central in long-term scheduling models applied to hydro …