Component-based development applied to energetic operation planning of hydrothermal power systems

The energetic operation planning of a hydrothermal power system aims to provide an economic and reliable operational policy that embraces time frames ranging from the long term energy control of hydroelectric resources to the electric and hydraulic aspects of daily generation dispatch. Due to the planning complexity and different aspects that this problem has to address, it may require a chain of computational tools to be solved. Those computational tools should permit to evaluate the current and future system performance, reliability, safety, and ability to grow with production or operating requirements. This work applies component-based development (CBD) towards the energetic operational planning of the Brazilian hydrothermal system. CBD is different from previous approaches, such as procedural programming or object-oriented programming, in its separation of component specification from implementation, and in the division of component specifications into interfaces. Further, CBD reestablishes the idea of reuse and introduces new elements.