The reliability of the power plants and transmission lines in the electricity industry is crucial
for meeting demand. Consequently, timely maintenance plays a major role reducing …

As the world's population and economy grow, demand for energy increases as well. Smart
grids can be a cost-effective solution to overcome increases in energy demand and ensure …

Generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) determines the outage periods of generating
units in a one-year or two-year planning horizon for regular safety inspection. This paper …

This paper presents a two-stage stochastic programming formulation for yearly generation
maintenance scheduling when the power generators are unreliable, which means they may …

Planning the maintenance of nuclear power plants is a complex optimization problem,
involving a joint optimization of maintenance dates, fuel constraints and power production …

The discrete unit commitment problem with min‐stop ram** constraints optimizes the daily
production of thermal power plants, subject to an operational reactivity of thermal units in a …

A preventive maintenance scheduling problem is studied on behalf of generation companies
(GENCOs) with natural gas power plants, while taking into account their signed natural gas …

An important and challenging real-life problem is considered, involving workforce
assignment and job scheduling for shutdown maintenance in a large oil refinery. A limited …

Recently, the setup times or costs have become an important research topic. The main
reason is huge economic savings can be achieved when setup times are explicitly included …

This paper elaborates compact MIP formulations for a discrete unit commitment problem with
minimum stop and ram** constraints. The variables can be defined in two different ways …