TITLE:
A Literature Review of Stochastic Programming and Unit Commitment
AUTHORS:
Hang Dai, Ni Zhang, Wencong Su
KEYWORDS:
Unit Commitment, Stochastic Programming, Review
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,
Vol.3 No.4,
April
14,
2015
ABSTRACT: The study of unit commitment (UC) aims to
find reasonable schedules for generators to optimize power systems’ operation. Many
papers have been published that solve UC through different methods. Articles
that systematically summarize UC problems’ progress in order to update researchers
interested in this field are needed. Because of its promising performance,
stochastic programming (SP) has become increasingly researched. Most papers,
however, present SP’s UC solving approaches differently, which masks their
relationships and makes it hard for new researchers to quickly obtain a general
idea. Therefore, this paper tries to give a structured bibliographic survey of
SP’s applications in UC problems.