1. Introduction

1.1. Introduction

2. The economic dispatch of thermal power stations

2.1. Introduction and formulation

2.2. Solving in Python: optimal, dual and marginal values

2.3. Sensitivity Analysis in Python

2.4. Solution and sensitivity analysis in GAMS

3. Dynamic economic dispatch on thermal units

3.1. Introduction to the cost-based Dynamic Economic Dispatch

3.2. Input data (python)

3.3. Model and solve (python)

3.4. Solve in GAMS and send the output to GDX and Excel files

3b. Sensitivity analyses on ramp rates

3b.1. Introduction

3b.2. Python modelling

3b.3. Sensitivity analysis (Python)

3b.4. Solving in GAMS

4. Conclusions

4.1. Conclusions