Niknam, Taher; Khodaei, Amin; Fallahi, Farhad - In: Applied Energy 86 (2009) 9, pp. 1667-1674
In this paper, we propose a new formulation based on benders decomposition approach to solve the thermal unit commitment (UC) problem. In the proposed approach, the UC problem is decomposed into a master problem, which is an integer optimization problem, and a subproblem, which is a nonlinear...