  Due to the established energy production methods contribution to the climate
crisis, renewable energy is to replace a substantial part of coal or nuclear
plants to prevent greenhouse gases or toxic waste entering the atmosphere. This
relatively quick shift in energy production, primarily pushed by increasing
political and economical pressure, requires enormous effort on the part of the
energy providers to balance out production fluctuations. Consequently, a lot of
research is conducted in the key area of stochastic unit commitment (UC) on
electrical grids and microgrids. The term unit commitment includes a large
variety of optimization techniques, and in this paper we will review recent
developments in this area. We start by giving an overview over different
problem definitions and stochastic optimization procedures, to then assess
recent contributions to this topic. We therefore compare the proposals and case
studies of several papers.
