SHORT-TERM UNIT COMMITMENT WITH SIMPLIFIED ECONOMIC-DISPATCH

This paper is concerned with the solution of short-term thermal unit commitment problems. We follow the dynamic programming formulation of this problem which gives rise to a large-scale optimization problem. A truncated dynamic programming method incorporated with a simplified dispatch method is proposed. Programming techniques are described which minimize the execution time. Numerical experiments indicate that the proposed method finds a better solution in less time than many existing techniques.