Hydropower optimization: an industrial approach

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of hydropower optimization, presenting a mathematical formulation and numerical results assuming deterministic inputs, emphasizing the importance of advanced models for effective energy management.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive mathematical model for hydropower optimization and demonstrates its application through numerical results, highlighting the industrial approach.

Findings

Mathematical formulation of hydropower optimization

Numerical results under deterministic assumptions

Emphasis on advanced models for energy management

Abstract

Nowadays hydroelectric energy is one of the best energy sources: it is cleaner, safer and more programmable than other sources. For this reason, its manage could not be done in an approssimative way, but advance mathematical models must be use. In this article we consider an overview of the problem: we introduce the problem, then we show its simplest but quite exaustive mathematical formulation and in the end we produce numerical results under the ipothesis that all input are deterministic.