Hydropower optimization: an industrial approach

Abstract

Nowadays hydroelectric energy is one of the best energy sources: it is cleaner, safer and more programmable than other sources. For this reason, its manage could not be done in an approssimative way, but advance mathematical models must be use. In this article we consider an overview of the problem: we introduce the problem, then we show its simplest but quite exaustive mathematical formulation and in the end we produce numerical results under the ipothesis that all input are deterministic.