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null (Ed.)Sub-hourly Unit Commitment (UC) problems have been suggested as a way to improve power system efficiency. Such problems, however, are much more difficult than hourly UC problems. This is not just because of the increased number of period to consider, but also because of much reduced unit ramping capabilities leading to more complicated convex hulls. As a result, state-of-the-art and practice methods such as branch-and-cut suffer from poor performance. In this paper, our recent Surrogate Absolute-Value Lagrangian Relaxation (SAVLR) method, which overcame major difficulties of standard Lagrangian Relaxation, is enhanced by synergistically incorporating the concept of Ordinal Optimization (OO). By using OO, solving subproblems becomes much faster. Testing of Midcontinent ISO (MISO)’s problem with 15 minutes as the time interval over 36 hours involving about 1,100 units and 15000 virtuals demonstrates that the new method obtains near-optimal solutions efficiently and significantly outperforms branch-and-cut.more » « less
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