Large scale mixed-integer linear programming MILP models may easily prove extraordinarily difficult to solve, even with efficient commercially-implemented MILP solution codes. Drawing on experience gained in solving and analyzing three intertemporal investment planning MILP models for electric power supply, this note offers several practical suggestions for reducing computer solution times for general productionallocation MILP models. Solution time reduction stems from judicious use of the powerful computational capabilities of existing commercial LP codes in conjunction with information known or to be learned by the Practitioner about the model's structure.
