Optimization of a complex hydropower development operation using HEC-ResSim

Abstract

In this paper HEC-ResSim is applied for a complex hydropower development formed by five reservoirs and related hydropower plants. There were considered characteristics of five existing hydropower developments in Romania, for which three reservoirs are with annual regulation and two with daily regulation. The objective function was the realization of a planned energy generation for one year (the mean hydrological year). Obtained results are very close to those obtained applying linear programming, a revised simplex algorithm.