The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem is a large-scale mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale instances. This paper presents a projected reformulation for UC problem. After projecting the power output of unit onto [0,1], a novel MIQP reformulation, denoted as P-MIQP, can be formed. The obtained P-MIQP is tighter than traditional MIQP formulation of UC problem. And the reduced problem of P-MIQP, which is eventually solved by solvers such as CPLEX, is compacter than that of traditional MIQP. In addition, two mixed intege...
