Determination of typical load profiles in hydro-power plant by clustering techniques

The operational strategy for maintain system stability is based on technological system services bidden by the OTS from the market. The modality from which the producers evaluated themselves the reserve of power takes an important role. Analyzing load profile from the hydro cascade is the first step that electrical companies must do for evaluated the daily power reserve. Thus they can provide better and improve efficiency marketing strategies. An alternative to the settlement based on metered demand is load profile based settlement. Results obtained demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to become first step of an efficient evaluated strategy.