Promoting a hydro-dominated electricity market (HEM) is greatly challenging. This study
analyzes impacts and challenges of electricity market on hydro-dominated power system …

Reforms currently under way in China's electricity markets bear important implications for its
decarbonization objectives. The southwestern province of Yunnan is among the provinces …

Hydropower can play a transformative role in supporting the substantial increase in variable
renewable energy (VRE) via flexible regulation ability, but the capability of cascade …

With the large-scale integration of wind and solar power in China, the consumption of these
intermittent renewable energies is severely restricted by the capacity of the transmission …

To satisfy the huge energy demand of China, a rapid development rate of hydropower
system was undertaken over the past decades. Currently, thousands of hydropower …

Due to the expanding system scale and increasing operational complexity, the cascade
hydropower reservoir operation balancing benefit and firm output is becoming one of the …

With the fast development of hydropower in China, a group of hydropower stations has been
put into operation in the past few decades and the hydropower system scale is experiencing …

Highlights•Daily operation of cascade hydropower plants shaving peak load for multiple
power grids is studied.•Operation constraints of hydropower units and head effect on power …

A lot of large hydropower plants have been built in China in the past few decades. Large-
capacity hydropower units usually have multiple prohibited operating zones (POZs) varying …

The escalating pressure for peak shaving presents a significant challenge for the power
grid's operation, particularly with the rapid growth of renewable energies. Huge cascade …