HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY: ON SHORT-TERM OPERATION SCHEDULE

This paper is on hydroelectric energy and particularly is on the assessment of the accurate short-run managing decision for the electric energy, article of trade, on nowadays energy market. We present the main features for this article of trade and for hydro energy resources in what regards managing, particularly, in the short run known as short-term operation schedule problem. We point out as challenge to this problem to combine engineering management knowledge of hydroelectric energy resources with computer simulation methods to improve the support for achieving the best decisions. Finally, we present as a case study a short-term operation schedule to handle head-sensitive reservoirs based on a non-linear network programming problem approach.