Optimization of Hedging Rules for Reservoir Operations
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 134, Issue 1
Abstract
Reservoir operations play an important role in water resources planning and management. During periods of drought, when inflows to the reservoir are low, it may not be possible to satisfy the target delivery (planned demand), and shortage occurs. Reservoir hedging rules, which include a set of rule curves and rationing factors, are used to guide the operation under such a situation. In particular, hedging rules are employed to balance the current shortage in supply with future storage to avoid severe water shortages in the future. In general, hedging rules are determined at the planning stage, or at the early stage of a reservoir’s operating life. However, after years of operation, the reservoir system, as well as the demand characteristics, may change. Hence, it becomes necessary to reevaluate and update the existing hedging rules to incorporate changes that have taken place. The purpose of this paper is to devise new hedging rules for an existing multireservoir system. An original mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is transformed to a mixed-integer quadratic programming model. A multireservoir system in southern Taiwan is used as a case study to demonstrate the utility of the model. The results show that the optimized new hedging rules improve the efficiency of reservoir operations of the water distribution system.
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Acknowledgments
The study reported herein was partially supported by the Water Resources Agency, Taiwan, ROC and by the University of California Water Resources Center through project W-934. The writers would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their in-depth and constructive reviews.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 134 • Issue 1 • January 2008
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Received: Jun 16, 2005
Accepted: Jan 16, 2007
Published online: Jan 1, 2008
Published in print: Jan 2008
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