For anyone interested:
Juan Alemany, Leszek Kasprzyk, Fernando Magnago, Effects of binary variables in mixed integer linear programming based unit commitment in large-scale electricity markets, Electric Power Systems Research, Volume 160, 2018, Pages 429-438, ISSN 0378-7796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2018.03.019.
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