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CHAPTER 13 ECONOMIC OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS

or set of decisions (in the sense of minimum cost) over the rst

(

- 1) stages

of the daily load cycle; this is equivalent to assuming that we know how to

choose the best combination of units for each of the rst (N - 1) intervals. If

we agree that combination Xi" is the best combination for stage (N - 1), then

searching among all the feasible combinations x j of

the