The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models

Acknowledgments. I: The Evolving Context for Unit Commitment Decisions. 1. Why This Book?: New Capabilities and New Needs for Unit Commitment Modeling; B.F. Hobbs, et al. 2. Regulatory Evolution, Market Design and Unit Commitment; R.P. O'Neill, et al. 3. Development of an Electric Energy Market Simulator; A. Debs, et al. II: New Features in Unit Commitment Models. 4. Auctions with Explicit Demand-Side Bidding in Competitive Electricity Markets; A. Borghetti, et al. 5. Thermal Unit Commitment with a Nonlinear AC Power Flow Network Model; C.E. Murillo-Sánchez, R.J. Thomas. 6. Optimal Self-Commitment under Uncertain Energy and Reserve Prices; R. Rajaraman, et al. 7. A Stochastic Model for a Price-Based Unit Commitment Problem and Its Application to Short-Term Generation Asset Valuation; C.-L. Tseng. 8. Probabilistic Unit Commitment under a Deregulated Market; J. Valenzuela, M. Mazumdar. III: Algorithmic Advances. 9. Solving Hard Mixed-Integer Programs for Electricity Generation; S. Ceria. 10. An Interior-Point/Cutting-Plane Algorithm to Solve the Dual Unit Commitment Problem - On Dual Variables, Duality Gap, and Cost Recovery; M. Madrigal, V.H. Quintana. 11. Building and Evaluating Genco Bidding Strategies and Unit Commitment Schedules with Genetic Algorithms; C.W. Richter, Jr., G.B. Sheblé. 12. An Equivalencing Technique for Solving the Large-Scale Thermal Unit Commitment Problem; S. Sen, D.P. Kothari. IV: Decentralized Decision Making. 13. Strategic UnitCommitment for Generation in Deregulated Electricity Markets; A. Baíllo, et al. 14. Optimization-Based Bidding Strategies for Deregulated Electric Power Markets; X. Guan, et al. 15. Decentralized Nodal-Price Self-Dispatch and Unit Commitment; F.D. Galiana, et al. 16. Decentralized Unit Commitment in Competitive Energy Markets; J. Xu, R.D. Christie. Index.