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CddHoward Consulting Ltd. provides consulting services for the water and energy sectors.
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CddHoward Consulting Ltd. provides expert advice at an early stage in the planning of major water projects, or for improving the operation of existing projects through better management of available water resources.  Services include development and implementation of decision support systems for water management, including hydrologic forecasting, flood operations, reservoir scheduling and hydroelectric system planning and operations. We are advisors to hydroelectric utilities, the World Bank, governments, cities, and industry. Recent work is located in Canada, the United States, Panama, Russia, China, and Vietnam. more....

 

Optimizing Hydropower with Excel by John Howard and Chuck Howard
Hydro Systems Optimization by Chuck Howard
Review of River Basin Decision Support Systems by Chuck Howard
Optimizing a Hydro System in Maine by Chuck Howard
Ensemble Optimization Procedures for Reservoir and Hydroelectric Operations by Chuck Howard
Hydroelectric Unit Dispatching Optimization Software, description and presentation.
Thanks to all that attended our workshop at Hydrovision 2008!

Operations and Planning: Shorten the Optimization Development Cycle

Proprietary software for hydro optimization lacks flexibility and is expensive and time consuming to develop. There is another way to develop a decision support system. In this workshop you will use an optimization engine and a spreadsheet interface for globally optimizing generation scheduling and unit committment. Benefits include improved technical communications, flexibility to make revisions, direct control of data and reduced development costs. Working examples based on actual experience will include one station, a cascade of stations, and a larger system. Validation procedures will point out data problems and their management. This is a new world for hydroelectric decision support systems - to participate actively bring a laptop with Excel 2003 to the workshop.