Please find below the general and technical programs
| General Program | ||||||
| Day 1 - Monday May 26th | Day 2 - Tuesday May 27th | Day 3 - Wednesday May 28th | ||||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration | 8:00 - 9:20 | Registration | 8:20 - 9:00 | Transportation: FGV to ONS |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome | 9:00 - 11:00 | Technical Visit to Independent System Operator (ONS) |
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| 9:20 - 10:40 | Plenary 1 | 9:20-10:40 | Plenary 3 | |||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffe Break | 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffe Break | |||
| 11:10 - 12:40 | Technical Sessions 1A & 1B |
11:10 - 12:40 | Technical Sessions 3A & 3B |
11:00 - 11:30 | Transportation ONS to CEPEL |
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| 11:30 - 16:30 | Techinical Visit to Research Center (CEPEL) + Social Lunch with Music & Cocktail |
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| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch | 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 15:10 | Technical Sessions 2A & 2B | 14:00 - 15:10 | Technical Sessions 4A & 4B | |||
| 15:10 - 15:20 | Mini break | 15:10 - 15:20 | Mini break | |||
| 15:20 - 16:40 | Plenary 2 | 15:20 - 16:30 | Technical Sessions 5A & 5B | |||
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffe Break | |||||
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Coffe Break | 16:30 - 17:00 | Transportation: CEPEL to FGV |
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| 17:00 - 18:20 | Plenary 4 | |||||
| 17:10 - 18:30 | Lightning Sessions A & B + Q&A with Posters |
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| 18:20 - 18:40 | Closing Ceremony | |||||
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Cocktail | |||||
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Dinner | |||||
| Plenary Sessions | |||
| Day 1 - Monday, May 26th | |||
Plenary Session 1
(9:20 - 10:40) |
Operation and Market Challenges | Chair: André Diniz, CEPEL | |
| Modeling hydrothermal scheduling and prices: the market pains | Edson Silva | Jirau Energia, Brazil | |
| Market modeling and hydro scheduling in Statkraft with incorporation of new technologies | Joachim Dahl Jensen | Statkraft, Norway | |
| Optimization tools for hydropower scheduling: challenges and opportunities from ONS’s perspectives | Alexandre Zucarato | ONS, Brazil | |
Plenary Session 2
(15:20 - 16:40) |
SDDP: New Perspectives | Chair: Bernardo Costa, FGV | |
| Multiscale stochastic optimzation of large hydro systems with AI-driven climate scenarios and HPC | Mario Veiga Pereira | PSR, Brazil | |
| Experimenting with SDDP: lessons from New Zealand | Andy Philpott | Univ. Auckland/ EPOC, New Zealand |
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| Joint chance-constrained Stochastic Dynamic Dual Programming | Claudia Sagastizábal | Unicamp, Brazil | |
| Day 2 - Tuesday, May 27th | |||
Plenary Session 3
(9:20 - 10:40) |
Modeling Hydroplants | Chair: Claudia Sagastizábal, Unicamp | |
| Trade-offs between hydropower modeling approaches in the day-ahead optimization model in Brazil | Erlon Finardi | UFSC, Brazil | |
| Fatigue-aware short-term hydro scheduling | Juan Ignacio Perez | Univ. Pol. Madrid, Spain |
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| Challenges in the individual modeling of hydro plants in long term power generation planning in Brazil: convergence properties, water values and backward scenario representation | Cristiane Cruz | Cepel, Brazil | |
Plenary Session 4
(17:00 - 18:20) |
Trends in Computation and Software Design | Chair: Arild Helseth, SINTEF | |
| Suite for Energy: An ecosystem to scaling tools for decision-making in the Energy Sector | Vitor de Matos | Norus, Brazil | |
| Hydropower scheduling on next-generation hardware platforms | Hans Ivar Skjelbred | Sintef, Norway | |
| Mathematical Optimization's evolution to accommodate formulations with non-linearities | Rodrigo Fuentes | Gurobi, USA | |
| Technical and Lightning sessions | |||
| Day 1 - Monday, May 26th | |||
Technical Session 1A
(11:10 - 12:40) |
Long-term Hydropower Planning | Chair: Guilherme Matiussi, CCEE | |
| Effects of increased granularity in the modeling of Nordic hydropower on price formation in connected markets | Kristine Schüller | NTNU | |
| Risk aversion and consequences for reservoir operation | Birger Mo | SINTEF | |
| Can a deterministic nonlinear model outperform a stochastic linear one in multi-reservoir long-term hydropower scheduling? | Secundino Soares | UNICAMP | |
| Adaptive distributionally robust optimization for long-term hydropower scheduling | Mari Haugen | NTNU | |
Technical Session 1B
(11:10 - 12:40) |
Energy Markets | Chair: Alexandre Street, PUC | |
| Two-Phase Optimization Approach for Profile Block Bidding in Short-Term Hydropower Scheduling | Stein-Erik Fleten | NTNU | |
| Virtual reservoir bids: A solution for the externalities in the operation of hydro cascades | Gabriel Rocha Cunha | PSR | |
| Impact of high-price taxes on power systems with hydropower | Viviane Aubin | NTNU | |
| The IARA Model: A Market Design Simulator for Short-Term Electricity Price Formation | Gabriel Vidigal | PSR | |
Technical Session 2A
(14:00 - 15:10) |
Short-term Hydropower Scheduling | Chair: Erlon Finard, UFSC | |
| A Two-Stage Model for Incorporating Wind Generation Uncertainties in the Short Term Power Generation Scheduling | Lucas Roberto Dagort | UFSC | |
| Recent improvements and computational challenges in the Brazilian Day-Ahead hydrothermal unit commitment solution strategy | Carlos Sabóia | CEPEL | |
| Hourly Granularity in Day-ahead Scheduling of the Brazilian system (DESSEM model): Implications for Hydro-Thermal Dispatch and Price Formation | Ronan Furtado | ELETROBRAS | |
Technical Session 2B
(14:00 - 15:10) |
Heuristics and Machine Learning applied to Hydropower Planning | Chair: Jiehong Kong, SINTEF | |
| An Explainable Physical-Machine Learning Hybrid Approach for Reservoir Inflow Forecasting | Rahmathulla Parambath | NTNU | |
| Applied solution techniques for bi-level problems in hydropower equivalent estimation | Uli Max Rahmlow | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | |
| Predicting Short-Term Hydropower Production using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Model | Sara Séguin | Univ. Quebec | |
Lightning Session A
(17:10 - 18:30) |
Optimization and Hydrology | Chair: Sara Séguin, Univ. Quebec | |
| Improved Inflow Modelling in Medium-Term Hydropower Scheduling | Amund Skretting Bergset | SINTEF | |
| Efficient Density Function Estimation for Hydro and Wind Power Applications Using Chebyshev Polynomial Approximations | Fernando Deeke Sasse | UFPR | |
| Optimizing Long-term Hydro-thermal Scheduling Through Deep Learning: A Comparative Study | Jinghao Wang | NTNU | |
| Iterative re-optimization with multiple markets in stochastic medium-term hydropower scheduling | Stefan Rex | SINTEF | |
| Comparison between different parallelization schemes in SDDP policy training | Guilherme Bodin | PSR | |
| Incorporating short-term constraints in the long-term hydrothermal-wind systems operation planning | André Diniz | CEPEL | |
| Impact of Electrical Network Constraints on Water Values and Hydro generation policy for long term Hydro-Thermal-Wind Planning Problem Solved via Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming: Application to the NEWAVE Model | Robério Barboza | CEPEL | |
| LinearDecisionRules.jl | Bernardo Costa | FGV EMAp | |
Lightning Session B
(17:10 - 18:30) |
Modeling and Applications | Chair: Birger MO, SINTEF | |
| Floating Hydroelectric Power Plant (FHPP) | Arthur Ottoni | Univ. Itajubá | |
| Detailed Representation of Hydropower and Pumped Hydropower Storage in Capacity Expansion Models | Christian Øyn Naversen | NTNU | |
| Feasibility analysis for the Installation of a Pumped Hydro Energy Storage in the Brazilian National Interconnected System | Lucas Lima | UFJF | |
| Methodology for analyzing the coupling between short, medium and long-term generation planning: a characterization of the Future Cost Function | André Marcato | UFJF | |
| Valuation of Reactive Power Support and the Role of Hydropower in Power Systems under Decarbonization | Paulo Barbosa | Essenz Soluções | |
| The Impact of Hydropower Scheduling on Transient Stability Studies | Nícolas Netto | CEPEL | |
| Model for determining critical reservoir levels for energy security | Rafael Almeida | CEPEL | |
| Physical Guarantee for Interconnected Systems | Rafael Klausner | PUC-RJ | |
| Day 2 - Tuesday, May 27th | |||
Technical Session 3A
(11:10 - 12:40) |
Hydropower with New Renewables | Chair: Carlos H. Sabóia, CEPEL | |
| Enhancing Grid Flexibility and Power System Planning: Valuing Modulation Services from Hydroelectric Plants | Amaro Pereira | UFRJ | |
| Consideration of Day Ahead Dispatch aspects in Generation Expansion Planning with Intermittent Renewable Sources | Miryam Curty | CEPEL | |
| Computing Usage Values for Prospective Studies in Energy Systems Using Spatial Decomposition | Camila Martinez-Parra | RTE | |
| Impact of VRES variability and uncertainty on water values | Arild Helseth | SINTEF | |
Technical Session 3B
(11:10 - 12:40) |
Scenario Generation and Uncertainty Models | Chair: Débora Jardim, ONS | |
| Multidimensional Quantile Regression Model for the Long-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Problem | Felipe Beltrán | NORUS | |
| A New Approach to Adjust Autoregressive Models for Generating Synthetic Water Inflow Series Based on Metaheuristics. | Edimar Oliveira | UFJF | |
| Effects of Systematic Bias in Inflow Forecasting on the Operational Planning of the Brazilian Energy System | Alexandre Street | PUC-RJ | |
| Handling the Impact of Climate Change in the Long-Term Generation Scheduling Problem via Distributionally Robust SDDP | Renata Pedrini | UFSC | |
Technical Session 4A
(14:00 - 15:10) |
Modeling of System Components | Chair: Stein-Erik Flaten, NTNU | |
| Optimizing the operation of cascade reservoirs to reduce environmental impacts | Rodrigo Tomaz | UFPR | |
| Representation of Maximum Turbine Discharge Capacity as a Function of Net Head in Hydroelectric Plants | Douglas Maciel | CEPEL | |
| Modelling Complex Tunnel Networks for Short-term Hydropower Scheduling | Christian Øyn Naversen | SINTEF | |
Technical Session 4B
(14:00 - 15:10) |
Heuristics and Machine Learning applied to Unit Commitment | Chair: Juan Ignacio Pérez-Díaz | |
| A Fast Solution Technique for the Hydro Unit Commitment Problem | Jiehong Kong | Sintef | |
| Application of neural networks to assist MIP solvers in the UC in power systems with penetration of renewable generation and pumped-storage | José Milla | UPM | |
| Hybrid Optimization for Unit Commitment in Hydrothermal Systems: Combining MILP and Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning | Esteban Gil | UTFSM | |
Technical Session 5A
(15:20 - 16:30) |
Enhancements in Long Term planning and SDDP | Chair: Vitor de Matos, NORUS | |
| Enhanced scalability in SDDP-based hydropower scheduling: A performance analysis on high-performance computing infrastructure | Knut Gjerden | SINTEF | |
| Novel Cut Selection Techniques for Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming using Pareto Dominance Arguments | Janik Königshofer | KIT | |
| Strategies for an Efficient Representation of the Piecewise Linear Approximation of the Hydropower Production Function in Long-Term Operation Planning | Pedro Lira | CEPEL | |
Technical Session 5B
(15:20 - 16:30) |
Hydroplant under New Energy Mix and Environmental Constraints |
Chair: Gabriel Cunha, PSR | |
| Impact of environmental constraints in hydrothermal energy planning | Kenny Vinente | UFAM | |
| Impacts of a green hydrogen industry in the Brazilian energy matrix | Pedro Batista | CPFL | |
| Sizing Hydro Plants for Energy Yield & Firming Capacity | Gunnar Pétursson | Landsvirkjun | |