This paper investigates and discusses the current and future role of machine learning (ML) within the hydropower sector. An overview of the main applications of ML in the field of hydropower operations is presented to show the most common topics that have been addressed in the scientific literature...

Optimization tools are widely used for solving the short-term hydro scheduling (STHS) problem in a cascaded hydro system. In a mixed integer linear programming (MILP)-based formulation, the nonlinear and non-convex hydropower production function (HPF) is represented by piecewise linear approximation...

The short-term hydro scheduling (STHS) problem aims at determining the optimal power generation schedules for either a single hydropower plant or an integrated system of cascaded watercourses during a time horizon from a single day to one week. Traditionally, an aggregated plant concept is usually...