Optimal Dynamic Dispatch Owing to Spinning-Reserve and Power-Rate Limits

This paper deals with the formulation and solution of the optimal dynamic dispatch problem owing to spinning-reserve and power-rate limits. The power production of a thermal unit is considered as a dynamic system, which limits the maximum increase and decrease of power. The solution is obtained with a special projection method having conjugate search directions that quickly and accurately solves the associated non-linear programming problem with up to 2400 variables and up to 9600 constraints.