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We consider the inclusion of commitment of thermal generation units in the optimal management of the Brazilian power system. By means of Lagrangian relaxation we decompose the problem and obtain a nondifferentiable dual function that is separable. We solve the dual problem with a bundle method. Our purpose is twofold: first, bundle methods are the methods of choice in nonsmooth optimization when it comes to solve large-scale problems with high precision. Second, they give good starting points for recovering primal solutions. We use an inexact augmented Lagrangian technique to find a near-optimal primal feasible solution. We assess our approach with numerical results.
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Belloni, A., Lima, A.D.S., Maceira, M.P. et al. Bundle Relaxation and Primal Recovery in Unit Commitment Problems. The Brazilian Case. Annals of Operations Research 120, 21–44 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023314026477
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