APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING FOR OPTIMAL OPERATION OF A ISOLATED HYDRO POWER RESERVOIR

Abstract

Dynamic programming is a quantitative analysis technique that has been widely applied to large, complex problems that have a sequence of decisions to be made. It was applied to calculate the regulation of an isolated hydro power reservoir with different objective functions: maximum unnual average energy or maximum annual profit (different energy price for different seasons). By the way, one can determine the optimum rule for reservoir operation. The computed result will be compared with the result obtained from the straight-line methods.