| Article ID: | iaor19921777 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 93 |
| End Page Number: | 106 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1991 |
| Journal: | Engineering Optimization |
| Authors: | Sandrin P. |
| Keywords: | planning, lagrange multipliers |
The paper surveys operations planning methods for power generation used by Electricité de France. Decomposition of the generation system into sub-units and the coordination of the sub-units is planned by means of Lagrangian dual methods. The paper describes these methods and current research into developing their accuracy and efficiency.