Fuel Resource Scheduling, Part I-Overview of an Energy Management Problem

This paper at an overview level discusses the probiems of Fuel and Resource Scheduling (FRS) in an Energy Management System (EMS). For a computer-based FRS, a hierarchical scheduling scheme is proposed so that long-term fuel strategy over a year can be meaningfully translated into real-time decisions for loading the units. In this process FRS has been decomposed into individual problems of Resource Budgeting for long-term fuel scheduling, Resource Scheduling for short-term fuel scheduling, and real-time fuel scheduling functions of Real-Time Resource Scheduling and Resource Constrained Economic Dispatch.