Development of Reservoir Hydropower Generation Modelling by a New Approach

By increasing of population rate in the world, the energy demand is increasing simultaneously. Nowadays, regarding to hydropower developing plans for achieving to clean energy sources has particular importance in the world. Hydropower plants are the one of the biggest world potential in energy generation having the minimum environmental problems [1]. Reservoir operation is one of the most important issues in the various problems of water resources. A reservoir operation policy is consist of rules which are determined the amount of water allocated or released from a reservoir [2]. Integrated water resources management is more considered to operate reservoirs in the water basin rather than past. It considers the hydropower demand as an independent water user with other water demands to reservoirs operation policy [3].
The subject matter of energy generation is the most important issue on hydropower plants in the seasons of a year or in the hours of daylight. In the other words, determination of installed capacity and designed discharge are the important factors in designing of hydropower plants. In case, a new developed algorithm of hydropower energy generation simulation is introduced by Matlab software in this study. This developed model is applied to simulate power generation of Abolabas reservoir system which is located in the west south of Iran, Khozestan province.