Modelling of uninterruptible work cycle of controllable electric loads

In this paper two approaches for the modeling of controllable loads operation are described. The uninterruptible working cycle of a controllable load imposes certain additional constraints. Such operation cycle is commonly modeled via additional artificial binary variables that further increase the complexity of the initial optimization problem. An approach for the reduction of these inconveniences is proposed with a modification of the balance constraint and further post-optimization processing of the obtained solution.