The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models

The Evolving Context for Unit Commitment Decisions -- Why this Book? New Capabilities and New Needs for Unit Commitment Modeling -- Regulatory Evolution, Market Design and Unit Commitment -- Development of an Electric Energy Market Simulator -- New Features in Unit Commitment Models -- Auctions with Explicit Demand-Side Bidding in Competitive Electricity Markets -- Thermal Unit Commitment with a Nonlinear AC Power Flow Network Model -- Optimal Self-Commitment under Uncertain Energy and Reserve Prices -- A Stochastic Model for a Price-Based Unit Commitment Problem and Its Application to Short-Term Generation Asset Valuation -- Probabilistic Unit Commitment under a Deregulated Market -- AlgorithmicAdvances -- Solving Hard Mixed-Integer Programs for Electricity Generation -- An Interior-Point/Cutting-Plane Algorithm to Solve the Dual Unit Commitment Problem — on Dual Variables, Duality Gap, and Cost Recovery -- Building and Evaluating GENCO Bidding Strategies and Unit Commitment Schedules with Genetic Algorithms -- An Equivalencing Technique for Solving the Large-Scale Thermal Unit Commitment Problem -- Decentralized Decision Making -- Strategic Unit Commitment for Generation in Deregulated Electricity Markets -- Optimization-Based Bidding Strategies for Deregulated Electric Power Markets -- Decentralized Nodal-Price Self-Dispatch and Unit Commitment -- Decentralized Unit Commitment in Competitive Energy Markets.