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Solving electricity market quadratic problems by Branch and Fix Coordination methods

Fri, 09/16/2011 - 16:37 — admin
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsF.-Javier Heredia; Cristina Corchero; Eugenio Mijangos
Conference Name25th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization
Conference Date12-16/09/2011
Conference LocationBerlin
Type of Workcontributed presentation
Key Wordsresearch; optimal bid; day-ahead electricity market; branch and fix coordination; perspective cuts; bilateral contracts; futures contracts; stochastic programming
AbstractThe electric market regulation in Spain (MIBEL) establishes the rules for bilateral contracts in the day-ahead optimal bid problem. Our model allows a price-taker generation company to decide the unit commitment of the thermal units, the economic dispatch of the bilateral contracts between the thermal units and the optimal sale bids for the thermal units observing the MIBEL regulation. The uncertainty of the spot prices is represented through scenario sets. We solve this model on the framework of the Branch and Fix Coordination metodology as a quadratic, two-stage stochastic problem. Numerical results are reported.
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Efficient Solution of Optimal Multimarket Electricity Bid Models

Mon, 05/30/2011 - 15:59 — admin
Publication TypeProceedings Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsCristina Corchero; F.-Javier Heredia; Eugenio Mijangos
Conference Name8th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM11)
Series TitleTo be published in the IEEEXplore
Pagination244-249
Conference Start Date25/05/2011
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Conference LocationZagreb, Croatia
EditorMarko Delimar
ISBN Number978-1-61284-286-8/11
Key Wordsspot electricity markets; financial electricity markets; Iberian Electricity Market; stochastic programming; perspective cuts; research; DPI2008-02153; paper
AbstractShort-term electricity market is made up of a sequence of markets, that is, it is a multimarket enviroment. In the case of the Iberian Energy Market the sequence of major short-term electricity markets are the day-ahead market, the ancillary service market or secondary reserve market (henceforth reserve market), and a set of six intraday markets. Generation Companies (GenCos) that participate in the electricity market could increase their benefits by jointly optimizing their participation in this sequence of electricity markets. This work proposes a stochastic programming model that gives the GenCo the optimal bidding strategy for the day-ahead market (DAM), which considers the benefits and costs of participating in the subsequent markets and which includes both physical futures contracts and bilateral contracts.
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DOI10.1109/EEM.2011.5953017
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Efficient Solution of Optimal Multimarket Electricity Bid Models

Mon, 05/30/2011 - 15:45 — admin
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsCristina Corchero; F.-Javier Heredia; Eugenio Mijangos
Conference Name8th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM11)
Series TitleInternational Conference on the European Energy Market
Conference Date25-27/05/2011
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Conference LocationZagreb, Croatia
EditorMarko Delimar
Type of WorkContributed presentacion
ISBN Number978-1-61284-284-4
Key Wordsspot electricity markets; financial electricity markets; Iberian Electricity Market; stochastic programming; perspective cuts; research; DPI2008-02153
AbstractShort-term electricity market is made up of a sequence of markets, that is, it is a multimarket enviroment. In the case of the Iberian Energy Market the sequence of major short-term electricity markets are the day-ahead market, the ancillary service market or secondary reserve market (henceforth reserve market), and a set of six intraday markets. Generation Companies (GenCos) that participate in the electricity market could increase their benefits by jointly optimizing their participation in this sequence of electricity markets. This work proposes a stochastic programming model that gives the GenCo the optimal bidding strategy for the day-ahead market (DAM), which considers the benefits and costs of participating in the subsequent markets and which includes both physical futures contracts and bilateral contracts.
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Improving electricity market price scenarios by means of forecasting factor models

Fri, 05/06/2011 - 15:09 — admin
Publication TypeProceedings Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsM.Pilar Muñoz; Cristina Corchero; F.-Javier Heredia
Conference Name57^th Session of the International Statistical Institute
Key Wordsresearch; DPI2008-02153; electricity markets; TSFA; spot price scenarios; paper
AbstractIn liberalized electricity markets, Generation Companies must build an hourly bid that is sent to the market operator. The price at which the energy will be paid is unknown during the bidding process and has to be forecast. In this work we apply forecasting factor models to this framework and study its suitability.
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DOIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/3047
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Optimización de modelos estocásticos de mercado eléctrico múltiple mediante métodos duales

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 09:47 — admin
Publication TypeTesis de Grau i Màster // BSc and MSc Thesis
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsUnai Aldasoro Marcellan
DirectorF. Javier Heredia
Tipus de tesiMSc Thesis
TitulacióMàster in Statistics and Operations Research
CentreFacultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística, departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, UPC
Data defensa16/03/2011
Nota // markMatrícula d'Honor (10/10)
Key Wordsteaching; research; dual methods; electricity markets; DPI2008-02153; mixed integer nonlinear programming; proximal bundle method; optimal day-ahead bid; electricity multimarket; MSc Thesis
AbstractEl presente trabajo plantea la resolución computacional de un modelo de optimización de la oferta de generación eléctrica para compañías eléctricas que participan en el mercado eléctrico liberalizado MIBEL. Dicho mercado se circunscribe a España y Portugal y se compone de una serie de subastas energéticas consecutivas donde el operador de mercado realiza para cada una de ellas la casación entre la oferta y demanda. Así, el objetivo de la compañía generadora será maximizar los beneficios obtenidos en la participación del conjunto de mercados teniendo en cuenta el cumplimiento de las obligaciones contractuales ya establecidas. El modelo matemático propuesto para su caracterización corresponde a un modelo de programación estocástica multietapa cuyo equivalente determinista es un problema de optimización cuadrática con variable binaria. Con el objetivo de aprovechar la estructura del problema se procede a plantear la dualización de un grupo de restricciones que producen que el problema original pueda ser dividido en subproblemas. Para su resolución se deberá estudiar la idoneidad de diversos métodos duales (subgradiente, Bundle Methods, ACCPM) y seleccionar el más conveniente para el caso abordado. La decisión finalmente adoptada ha consistido en elegir como método de resolución el algoritmo Proximal Bundle Method descrito en [18] y adaptado satisfactoriamente a problemas de coordinación de la generación hidro-térmica [17]. El análisis de método Proximal Bundle Method corresponderá a su compresión e interpretación gráfica, a la resolución de un ejemplo de pequeña escala de manera analítica y a su resolución computacional. El objetivo de la fase de resolución será valorar el proceso iterativo y la convergencia del Proximal Bundle Method aplicado al problema multimercado de oferta óptima y la comparación de resultados respecto a otro método dual como el método del subgradiente. La implementación computacional se realizará mediante el lenguaje C++, específicamente se utilizará el metalenguaje Concert Techonolgy creado por IBM para el enlace entre el código C++ y el solver CPLEX. Se comprueba que dicho lenguaje tiene como ventajas principales su simplicidad estructural y el compacto código que produce. No obstante la implementación del Proximal Bundle Method manifiesta una serie de limitaciones prácticas de Concert Technology en cuanto al almacenado y actualización de problemas de optimización. Se propone como línea de futuro el análisis de lenguajes alternativos. En todo caso, los resultados obtenidos desprenden que el Proximal Bundle Method se adapta satisfactoriamente al problema multimercado de oferta óptima, además se concluye que en la aplicación numérica considerada un tamaño de Bundle ilimitado produce los mejores resultados. Además en trabajo propone una serie de líneas de investigación futuras en las que destacan la paralelización de la resolución de los subproblemas, y la definición del subproblema asociado a cada térmica como un problema de caminos mínimos
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Congratulations Dr. Cristina Corchero!

Thu, 02/03/2011 - 16:45 — admin

Dr. Heredia (left) and Corchero (right).Yesterday February 2 my doctorate student, and friend, Cristina Corchero presented her Ph. D. dissertation on optimal bids in electricity markets. Dr. Corchero developed stochastic programming optimization models to find the optimal bid curve that integrates bilateral and future contractes in the sequence of short-term MIBEL's electricity markets.

The members of the examination panel were prof. Stein-Erik Fleten , from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, prof. Andres Ramos from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and prof. Jordi Castro, from the  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After a very interesting discussion they agreed to give the maximum qualification, Cum Laude, to the research work of Ms. Corchero. I would like to thank the members of the examination committe for their  interesting comments and analysis of the thesis contributions. I'm also very grateful with prof. Pilar Muñoz and  prof. Marcos J. Rider for their collaboration in the supervision of the thesis.

And, of course, my most sinceres congratulations to Dr. Cristina Corchero.

Short Term Bidding Strategies for a Generation Company in the Iberian Electricity Market

Thu, 01/27/2011 - 15:01 — admin
Publication TypeThesis
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsCristina Corchero
Academic DepartmentDept. of Statistics and Operations Research. Prof. F.-Javier Heredia, advisor.
Number of Pages166
UniversityUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya
CityBarcelona
DegreePhD Thesis
Key Wordsresearch; teaching; DPI2008-02153; electricity markets; stochastic programming; MIBEL
AbstractThe start-up of the Iberian Electricity Market introduced a set of new mechanisms in the Spanish electricity sector that forced the agents participating in the market to change their management policies. This situation created a great opportunity for studying the bidding strategies of the generation companies in this new framework. This thesis focuses on the short-term bidding strategies of a price-taker generation company that bids daily in the Iberian Electricity Market. We will center our bidding strategies on the day-ahead market because 80% of the electricity that is consumed daily in Spain is negotiated there and also because it is the market where the new mechanisms are integrated. One of the main contributions of this thesis has been the study the Spanish electricity price time series and its modeling by means of factor models. In this thesis, the new mechanism introduced by the Iberian Market that a fects the physical operation of the units is described. In particular, it considers in great detail the inclusion of the physical futures contracts and the bilateral contracts into the day-ahead market bid of the generation companies. The rules of the market operator have been explicitly taken into account within the mathematical models, along with all the classical operational constraints that a fect the thermal and combined cycle units. The expression of the optimal bidding functions are derived and proved. Once these main objectives were full filed, we improved the previous models with an approach to the modeling of the influence that the sequence of very short markets have on optimal day-ahead bidding. These markets are cleared just before and during the day in which the electricity will be consumed and the opportunity to obtain benefi t from them changes the optimal day-ahead bidding strategies of the generation company, as it has been shown in this thesis. The entire models presented in this work have been tested using real data from a generation company and Spanish electricity prices. Suitable results have been obtained and discussed.
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Anounce of Cristina Corchero's PhD Thesis defense

Thu, 01/27/2011 - 14:52 — admin
It is my pleasure to announce that next wednesday February 2, Cristina Corchero, member of the GNOM research group , will defense the PhD. Thesis dissertation
 
 
which I proudly supervised. All of you are welcome to the dissertation defense that will take place on February 2 at 11.00 am in the Sala d'Actes of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística, UPC, Barcelona.

A stochastic programming model for the optimal electricity market bid problem with bilateral contracts for thermal and combined cycle units

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 23:55 — admin
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsF.-Javier Heredia; Marcos J. Rider; C. Corchero
Journal TitleAnnals of Operations Research
Volume193
Issue1
Pages107-127
Start Page107
Journal Date2012
PublisherSpringer
ISSN Number0254-5330
Key Wordsresearch; paper; stochastic programming; day-ahead market; combined cycle; bilateral contracts; modeling; DPI2008-02154
AbstractThis paper develops a stochastic programming model that integrates the most recent regulation rules of the Spanish peninsular system for bilateral contracts in the dayahead optimal bid problem. Our model allows a price-taker generation company to decide the unit commitment of the thermal and combined cycle programming units, the economic dispatch of the bilateral contract between all the programming units and the optimal sale bid by observing the Spanish peninsular regulation. The model was solved using real data of a typical generation company and a set of scenarios for the Spanish market price. The results are reported and analyzed. The main contributions of this paper include: (a) a new model for the optimal bid function and matched energy for thermal and CC units, (b) a new and detailed mixed-integer formulation of the operation rules of the CC units and (c) the joint optimization of all the above-mentioned factors together with the BC duties. The model was tested with real data of market prices and programming units of a GenCo operating in the Spanish electricity market.
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DOI10.1007/s10479-011-0847-x
Preprinthttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/2282
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A Stochastic Programming Model for the Thermal Optimal Day-Ahead Bid Problem with Physical Futures Contracts

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 23:51 — admin
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsCristina Corchero; F.-Javier Heredia
Journal TitleComputers & Operations Research
Volume38
Issue11
Pages1501-1512
Start Page1501
Journal Date2011
PublisherElsevier
ISSN Number0305-0548
Key Wordsresearch; paper; stochastic programming; optimal bod; day-ahead market; MIBEL; DPI2008-02154; modeling
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DOI10.1016/j.cor.2011.01.008
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