A primal-proximal heuristic applied to the French Unit-commitment problem

Autor: Claude Lemaréchal, L. Dubost, R. Gonzalez
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Mathematical Programming. 104:129-151
ISSN: 1436-4646
0025-5610
Popis: This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of unit-commitment problems, with emphasis on the French model optimizing the daily production of electricity. The solution process has two phases. First a Lagrangian relaxation solves the dual to find a lower bound; it also gives a primal relaxed solution. We then propose to use the latter in the second phase, for a heuristic resolution based on a primal proximal algorithm. This second step comes as an alternative to an earlier approach, based on augmented Lagrangian (i.e. a dual proximal algorithm). We illustrate the method with some real-life numerical results. A companion paper is devoted to a theoretical study of the heuristic in the second phase.
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