MAINTENANCE WINDOW IN THE PREVENTIVE OUTAGE DECISIONS
In the most papers regarding Generation Maintenance Scheduling (or Outage Planning) problem, we can see that the authors have assumed the information of 'maintenance window' is available for the decision maker (ISO or GENCO owner) in advance.
But in my opinion, it is not a correct assumption in the competitive electricity markets where GENCOs cannot exactly anticipate their operational hours in order to be ready for the maintenance.
Therefore, can I consider the 'maintenance window' as an unknown input parameter and/or extent it to the whole year without start and end points?
I would greatly appreciate any help.
Regards,
Morteza Shabanzadeh
http://mortezash.blogfa.com/
Dear Morteza,
To the best of my knowledge, Generation Maintenance Scheduling (GMS) is often a large-scale optimization problem especially when the decision maker is ISO who is responsible to coordinate all the unit maintenance schedules simultaneously. Therefore, if you do not consider the Maintenance Window as an input data, the decision variables (binary variables) of your problem will increase. Accordingly, your optimization problem will be intractable.
Consequently, maintenance window should be introduced by the GENCO owners/operators as a known data in advance.
Regards,
M. Dehbashian
Dear Mrs. Dehbashian,
Many thanks for your kind and convincing answer.
Regards,
Morteza
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