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Long-term optimal operation of a multireservoir system is complex because it is a dynamic problem (present decisions for one reservoir depend on future decisions for all reservoirs); the optimal operating policy for one reservoir depends not only on its own energy content, but also on the corresponding content of each one of the other reservoirs; it is a highly stochastic problem with respect to the reservoir inflows and it is a nonlinear problem. This paper presents a new method for determining the optimal monthly operating policy of a power system consisting of multireservoirs on a multiriver system taking into account the stochasticity of the river flows. Functional optimization techniques and minimum norm formulation have been used. Results for a numerical example composed of three rivers with four reservoirs, three reservoirs, and two reservoirs on each river, respectively, are presented.
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Communicated by C. T. Leondes
This work was supported by the National Research Council of Canada, Grant. No. A4146.
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Christensen, G.S., Soliman, S.A. Long-term optimal operation of a parallel multireservoir power system. J Optim Theory Appl 50, 383–395 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00938626
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00938626