Assessing the cost of the Hazard-Decision simplification in multistage stochastic hydrothermal scheduling

Alexandre Street, Davi Valladão, André Lawson and Alexandre Velloso

Applied Energy, 2020, vol. 280, issue C, No S0306261920313969

Abstract: Hydropower is one of the world’s primary renewable energy sources whose usage has profound economic, environmental, and social impacts. We focus on the dispatch of generating units and the storage policy of hydro resources. In this context, an accurate assessment of the water opportunity-cost is crucial for driving the sustainable use of this scarce resource. Nevertheless, traditional computational tools use stochastic dual dynamic programming under the Hazard-Decision (HD) modeling simplification, where dispatch decisions are determined assuming perfect information about the current inflows. In practice, however, some dispatch decisions are made before water inflows are observed, i.e., under a Decision-Hazard (DH) scheme. This inconsistency generates an optimistic assessment of the opportunity cost of the water, inducing a sub-optimal use of energy resources. Thus, our objectives are: (i) to raise awareness of the HD issue bridging research and implementation with a clear recommendation to system operators and regulators; (ii) to incorporate the DH scheme into the long-term hydrothermal scheduling problem; (iii) to assess the economic impacts and other market distortions due to the actual energy usage policy based on the HD simplification. For a representative case-study with realistic data from the Brazilian power system, results show that the HD simplification introduces a regret cost of 12%. Furthermore, we show that incorporating the DH scheme into the hydrothermal planning model, the energy supply cost can be reduced up to 5.3%. We also show that spot-price distortions and expensive thermal generation could be mitigated in the DH scheme.

Keywords: Multistage hydrothermal scheduling; Stochastic dual dynamic programming; Hazard-Decision vs Decision-Hazard; Time consistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115939

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