On the application of Benders decomposition to energy system models

  1. yes, I’d be interested in attending. I’ve experienced the curse-of-dimensionality first hand when dealing with apply stochastic programming to energy system optimisation models, but have never applied Benders decomposition. With all moves away from vanilla linear programming using off-the-shelf solvers, there is often a significant learning curve, and the potential to spend more time on developing and dealing with novel algorithmic problems, rather than actually solving an energy systems problem. Where does Benders decomposition lie on this spectrum?
  2. No preference
  3. Python