The 24th edition of the European Conference on Operational Research was held this year in Lisbon. I participate with two invited presentations. The first contribution "Optimal day-ahead bidding strategy with futures and bilateral contracts. Scenario generation by means of factor models", co-authored with Cristina Corchero , was presented in the Session Applications of stochastic programming to the energy sector-electricity. The second invited contribution, in collaboration with professor Eugenio Mijangos from the University of the Basque Country, was the work "Perspective cuts for solving the optimal electricity market bid problem with bilateral contracts", presented in the session Large-scale Mixed Optimization Problems. I also was the chairman of this last session.
The International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) is a premier forum to discuss the development of the energy sector in a market environment and the creation of the common European Energy Market.
The EEM 10 has been held in Madrid, Spain June 23-25 2010. Cristina Corchero, who is finishing her PhD on energy markets, and myself participated in the event with the presentation of the paper "Optimal Day-Ahead Bidding in the MIBEL's Multimarket Energy Production System", that will be published formerly by the IEEE Power and Energy Society at the IEEEXplore.
The Group on Numerical Optimization and Modeling (GNOM) has now a new web page at
This new site has been developed with Plone under the GenWeb framework of the UPC (http://genweb.upc.edu/).
I proudly invite you to visit this new site, where all the relevant information about our research and teaching activity will be shown. You can also sindicate to the RSS channel.
Hope you like it!!
The paper "Optimal Bidding Strategies for Thermal and Generic Programming Units in the Day-ahead Electricity Market" has been recently accepted for publication at the journal IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. In this work, the authors, prof. F.-Javier Heredia, Dr. Marcos.-J Rider and Ms. Cristina Corchero developed, within the general stochastic programming framework, a new optimal bid model for both thermal and generic programmingn units (also known as Virtual Power Plants) taken into account the most recent regulation rules of the Spanish peninsular system MIBEL. A previous version of the accepted paper can be downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/2117/2282.
To access to the full paper through the IEEEXplore digital library, click here.
Dimecres 23 de desembre es cel·lebrarà la Junta de Facultat de l'FME amb el següent ordre del dia:
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El dimecres 25 de novembre es va cel·lebrar la Junta de Facultat de l'FME amb el següent ordre del dia:
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I have been kindly invited by the coordinator prof. Nicolas Boccard to attend the first
Workshop on Energy and Environment
to be held at the Cloister of the School for Humanities and Art, University of Girona
Friday, 2nd October 2009
El passat dijous 9 de juliol de 2009 es va llegir el Projecte Final de Carrera dels alumnes Silvia Nieto i Ivan Ruz, que portava per títol "Estudi i optimització de l’oferta al Mercat Ibèric ’Electricitat (MIBEL)", dirigit pel professor Javier Heredia. Els objectius del treball han estat:
[1] Arroyo, José M. ; Carrión, Miguel. A computationally efficient mixed-integer linear formulation for the termal unit commitment problem. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers transactions on power systems, vol. 21, nº3, agost 2006.
[2] "A Stochastic Programming Model for the Thermal Optimal Day-Ahead Bid Problem with Physical Futures Contracts", Submitted to European Journal of Operations Research, Barcelona, Espanya, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 03/2009