Firehiwot Girma

1. Introduction Many hydropower plants have large reservoirs, which allow water to be stored for an extended period of time. This water is used when the demand is high or other generation sources are scarce in the system. In many cases, there are a few short periods with substantial inflow each year. The task of long-term hydropower planning is to decide during which periods this water should be used.

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Firehiwot Girma Dires 1,*,†, Mikael Amelin 2 and Getachew Bekele 1 1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa 385, Ethiopia 2 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.