List of Figures
3-1 MOST Continuous Single-Period Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3-2 Secure Dispatch Problem Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3-3 Reserve Structure for Generator i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3-4 Problem Structure with Multiple Base Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3-5 Reserve Structure for Generator i in Period t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3-6 Ramping and Load Following Ramp Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3-7 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3-8 Overall Problem Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3-9 MOST Mixed Integer and Multi-Period Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5-1 Assembling the MOST Data struct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7-1 Tutorial Example System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
7-2 Example Load and Wind Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7-3 Deterministic UC : Base Case with No Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7-4 Deterministic UC : Add DC Network Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7-5 Deterministic UC : Add Startup and Shutdown Costs . . . . . . . . . 95
7-6 Deterministic UC : Add Min Up/Down Time Constraints . . . . . . . 97
7-7 Deterministic UC : Add Ramp Constraints and Ramp Reserve Costs 98
7-8 Deterministic UC : Add Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
7-9 Example Wind Profiles, Individual Trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7-10 Stochastic UC : Individual Trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
7-11 Example Wind Profiles, Full Transition Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 103
7-12 Stochastic UC : Full Transition Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
7-13 Secure Stochastic UC : Full Transition Probabilities + Contingencies 105
7-14 Secure Stochastic UC with Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
List of Tables
4-1 Five Price Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5-1 Fields of xGenData struct (xgd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5-2 Fields of StorageData struct (sd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5-3 Fields of Profle Struct (profile) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5-4 MOST Run Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5-5 MOST Model Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5-6 Input Data Fields of md . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
5-7 Additional Input Data Fields of md . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5-8 Fields of Offer struct md.offer(t) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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