Optimal generation scheduling of hydro-based power units has a significant place in electric
power systems, which considerably has been dealt with as a subject of investigations for …

Microgrids assisted by renewable energy resources are complex man made systems of
various interconnected components. A number of real life scenarios relating to resource …

Clean energy and water are two essential resources that any society must securely deliver.
Their usage raises sustainability issues and questions of nations' resilience in face of global …

With the increasing amount of distributed generation (DG) integrated into electrical
distribution networks, various operational problems, such as excessive power losses, over …

An integrated technique that embeds civilized swarm optimization (CSO) and Powell's
pattern search (PPS) method is proposed to search economic dispatch of combined heat …

With increasing attention paid to energy and environment in recent years, the hydrothermal
scheduling considering economic and environmental objectives is becoming one of the …

Highlights•The proposed model could obtain near-global optima in an acceptable CPU
time.•The model performed well in relieving the peak shaving pressure of each power …

This paper proposes a robust optimization model for optimal self scheduling of a hydro-
thermal generating company. The proposed model is suitable for price taker Gencos which …

Worldwide, there is an increase in the number of energy storage systems that are installed
as a result of several benefits. These systems bring uniformity and efficiency improvements …

In recent years, significant attention has been given to renewable energy integration within
the context of global climate change. In the meantime, the energy-water nexus literature has …