Despite the popularity and rhetoric of collaborative approaches, the successes of such initiatives are not widespread and remain elusive. Some commentators argue that without ‘the noise of participation’, a return to centralised governance should be reconsidered. Whilst this conclusion may...

To extract optimal reservoir operation policies, it is important to consider different objectives simultaneously. In this study, by applying a meta-heuristic, multi-objective optimization approach, real-time optimal operation rules of Karoon4 dam are extracted as two-objectives by considering...

A simulation model is developed to understand the dynamic behavior of a hydraulically coupled multiple reservoir system when operated in real-time. An object-oriented simulation environment conceived on the principles of system dynamics (SD) is used for the development of the model. The modeling...

<Para ID="Par1">Real-time operation rules are strategies that use prior and current system states to achieve desired conditions in future periods. Commonly, these rules are based on estimates of current and future inflows, current aquifer and reservoir storages, hydraulic heads, power plant capacities and...</para>

A multi-agent system based energy management system (EMS) is proposed in this paper for implementing a PV-small hydro hybrid microgrid (MG) at high altitude. Based on local information, the distributed generation (DG) sources in the MG are controlled via the EMS to achieve efficient and stable...