Optimization of Reservoir Operations
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-objective optimization; ecological operation; uncertainty analysis; multi-criteria decision-making; hydro-wind-photovoltaic complementary operation
Interests: water resources operation and management; water resources system theory and sustainable utilization; basin hydrological simulation and uncertainty analysis; optimization method
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Dear Colleagues,
Reservoir operations play a critical non-structural role in ensuring flood control, water security, energy supply and ecological protection under increasing pressures from climate change, socio-economic development and the large-scale integration of renewable energy. Accordingly, the optimization of reservoir operations has evolved from traditional single-objective, single-energy and deterministic approaches toward multi-objective, multi-energy and stochastic approaches that explicitly account for hydrological variability, operation risk and the complex coupling between water resources and power system constraints.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive forum for recent advances in theoretical developments, modeling techniques and practical applications related to optimal reservoir operations. It seeks to bring together innovative research that improves decision-making robustness, enhances system reliability and supports comprehensive reservoir management in complex and uncertain environments. Both methodological contributions and real-world case studies are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Multi-objective and multi-timescale reservoir optimal operation
- Reservoir optimal operation under uncertainty
- Reservoir operations under changing environments
- Complementary operation of hydro–wind–photovoltaic energy systems
- Trade-off analysis between operational risks and benefits
- Ecological operation
- Deep learning-based reservoir operations
- Multi-criteria decision-making for reservoir operations
Dr. Hu Hu
Dr. Zhe Yang
Dr. Ziyu Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-objective optimization
- stochastic optimization
- adaptive operation
- hydro–wind–photovoltaic comple-mentary operation
- ecological operation
- deep learning
- multi-criteria decision-making
- risk analysis
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