Mathematical Modeling in Industry-A Workshop for Graduate
Students
A Pricing Problem in the Energy Industry
Tutor: Samer Takriti, IMB Watson Research Center
The electric power industry is going through deregulation. The
current picture of a single utility controlling the market in
a specific region will soon disappear. Instead, there will be
power producers who sell their production to a power pool; and
power suppliers who will buy power from the pool and sell it
to their customers. As a result, generating companies are faced
with increasing demand uncertainty and must consider volatile
electricity prices in their operations. We study scheduling the
generating units in the presence of uncertainty. The resulting
models are large-scale mixed-integer programs. We investigate
solving these models using branch-and-bound (CPLEX) and using
Lagrangian relaxation.
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