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Title: Accelerating Computation of the Unit Commitment Problem (Presentation)

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OSTI ID:1097887

Production cost models (PCMs) simulate power system operation at hourly (or higher) resolution. While computation times often extend into multiple days, the sequential nature of PCM's makes parallelism difficult. We exploit the persistence of unit commitment decisions to select partition boundaries for simulation horizon decomposition and parallel computation. Partitioned simulations are benchmarked against sequential solutions for optimality and computation time.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1097887
Report Number(s):
NREL/PR-6A20-60623
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the INFORMS 2013 Annual Meeting, 6 - 9 October, 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Related Information: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English