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Load forecasting is an important function in economic power generation, allocation between plants (Unit Commitment Scheduling), maintenance scheduling, and for system security applications such as peak shaving by power interchange with interconnected utilities. In this thesis th…

In this dissertation, we contribute to current debates in the context of electricity restructuring. First, we study the constrained economic dispatch (CED) problem considering a nonsmooth cost function. Nonsmooth characteristics of generator cost functions, representing prohibit…