A new generation scheduling program at Ontario Hydro

The new daily generation scheduling model for the Ontario Hydro system is presented. The model is capable of considering the thermal and hydraulic systems together with system reserve requirement and transmission losses. The hydraulic system is considered in a detailed formulation that can handle river couplings in a complete manner. Inability to do this was a major weakness in the peak shaving technique used since early 1970s. A special network programming technique has been used to solve the problem. This method has proved to be very efficient from a computational point of view. Test results from application of the new technique are presented and compared to the peak shaving method. The user has estimated 1.4 million dollars per year of savings from the new computer package. >

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