EDF is the major French multinational electric utility company owned by the French state. Our collaboration is about solving the short-term hydro unit commitment and scheduling problem in a hydro valley using decomposition and aggregation techniques.
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In order to schedule their hydraulic plants, electricity producers solve each day a problem known as the Hydro Unit Commitment problem. In this talk, we present a variant of this problem, the discrete Hydro Unit Commitment problem, inspired by the one solved at EDF. We propose a mixed-integer linear programming model for this variant and then introduce an extended formulation that enables cuts which significantly strengthen its linear relaxation. Finally, we discuss ways to reduce the size of the formulation while preserving a strong linear relaxation, and we present preliminary experimental results.
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We are happy to announce that Lionel Rolland has joined our team as a CIFRE PhD student with EDF. Lionel will work on the optimization of a hydro valley.